This is a collection of terms and acronyms you may encounter when working with database technology.
Despite a commonly held belief among the uninitiated, this is not the substance of choice of data modelers.
A mnemonic for the four important properties of database transactions: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability.
The source of this acronym is the 1983-12 paper "Principles of Transaction-Oriented Database Recovery," by Theo Härder and Andreas Reuter, published in ACM Comp. Surv. 15, No. 4.
Binary Large OBject.
This is not a slang term for data, nor even for dirty data.
A mnemonic for the four operations on a database object: Create, Read, Update, and Delete.
Data Definition Language.
Entity/Relationship.
Functional Dependence.
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