relational database management system
- noun
- /rɪˈleɪʃənəl ˈdeɪtəˌbeɪs ˈmænɪdʒmənt ˈsɪstəm/
- Specialized
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sistema de gestión de bases de datos relacionales
- A relational database management system allows users to efficiently store and retrieve data using structured query language (SQL).
Examples
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Though a compact system for printed presentation of the information, the method provided by Kuchler lacks the flexibility necessary for input into a present-day relational database management system.
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Still, you could argue that a relational database management system might be useful for small offices.
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Here, the tool was a relational database management system.
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These application systems are based upon a common foundation provided by large-scale relational database management systems.
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A data management layer employs a single or federated relational database management system.
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But Microsoft Access did not exist in 1986, nor did any other relational database management system for microcomputers.
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They typically employ integrated design architecture with all data centralized in a single relational database management system.
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We can start selecting variables or data sources to collect and query the data from a distributed file system, relational database management system, or non-relational database.
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Ms. Pompadour would also like to explore the possibility of developing a customer relationship management system (CRM) and/or a relational database management system (RDBMS) to track the following information:
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On the one hand, the relational database model (Codd 1970; 1972; 1974) is a candidate for reasons of immediate applicability since relational database management systems are widely available.
Academic text (1990)
How Relational
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Surface Forms
Morphology
relational + database + management + system
The phrase is largely compositional: a B1 learner who knows 'database', 'management', and 'system' can infer it denotes a system for managing databases. However, the modifier 'relational' encodes a specific technical model (table-based/SQL-oriented) that is specialized and not fully predictable from a general sense of 'relating', so the full, precise meaning requires domain knowledge.
Etymology
Relational database management system gets its name because relational refers to tables that are linked, database means a collection of data in those tables, and management system is the software that looks after them. So the phrase means 'software that stores and organizes data in linked tables'.