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<glossary id="glossary">
<note>
<para>This glossary is still very thinly populated, and not all
references in the main text have been properly linked and
coordinated with this glossary. This will hopefully change in
future revisions.
</para>
</note>
<glossentry id="gloss-attribute">
<glossterm>Attribute</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
A property of objects stored in a database table. Attributes are
represented as columns (or fields) in a table.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry>
<glossterm>Active database</glossterm>
<glosssee otherterm="gloss-database-object" />
</glossentry>
<glossentry>
<glossterm>Connection</glossterm>
<glosssee otherterm="gloss-database-object" />
</glossentry>
<!-- glossentry>
<glossterm>Closed Database</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
An object of type <type>closed-database</type>. This is
in contrast to the terms connection, database, active
database or <glossterm
linkend="gloss-database-object">database object</glossterm>
which don't include objects which are closed database.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry -->
<glossentry>
<glossterm>Column</glossterm>
<glosssee otherterm="gloss-attribute" />
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="gloss-ddl">
<glossterm>Data Definition Language (<acronym>DDL</acronym>)
</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
The subset of SQL used for defining and examining the
structure of a database.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="gloss-dml">
<glossterm>Data Manipulation Language (<acronym>DML</acronym>)
</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
The subset of SQL used for inserting, deleting, updating and
fetching data in a database.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry>
<glossterm>database</glossterm>
<glosssee otherterm="gloss-database-object" />
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="gloss-database-object">
<glossterm>Database Object</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An object of type <type>database</type>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry>
<glossterm>Field</glossterm>
<glosssee otherterm="gloss-attribute" />
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="gloss-field-types">
<glossterm>Field Types Specifier</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A value that specifies the type of each field in a query.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="gloss-ffi">
<glossterm>Foreign Function Interface
(<acronym>FFI</acronym>)
</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
An interface from Common Lisp to a external library which
contains compiled functions written in other programming
languages, typically C.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="gloss-query">
<glossterm>Query</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
An SQL statement which returns a set of results.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry>
<glossterm>RDBMS</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
A Relational DataBase Management System
(<acronym>RDBMS</acronym>) is a software package for managing
a database in which the data is defined, organised and
accessed as rows and columns of a table.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="gloss-record">
<glossterm>Record</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
A sequence of attribute values stored in a database table.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry>
<glossterm>Row</glossterm>
<glosssee otherterm="gloss-record" />
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="gloss-sql">
<glossterm>Structured Query Language
(<acronym>SQL</acronym>)
</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
An ANSI standard language for storing and retrieving data
in a relational database.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="gloss-sql-expression">
<glossterm>SQL Expression</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Either a string containing a valid SQL statement, or
an object of type <type>sql-expression</type>.
<!-- note>
<para>This has not been implemented yet, so only strings
are valid SQL expressions for the moment.
</para>
</note -->
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="gloss-table">
<glossterm>Table</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
A collection of data which is defined, stored and accessed as
tuples of attribute values (i.e., rows and columns).
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="gloss-transaction">
<glossterm>Transaction</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
An atomic unit of one or more SQL statements of which all or none are
successfully executed.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry>
<glossterm>Tuple</glossterm>
<glosssee otherterm="gloss-record" />
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="gloss-view">
<glossterm>View</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
A table display whose structure and content are derived from an
existing table via a query.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="gloss-view-class">
<glossterm>View Class</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
The class <function>standard-db-object</function> or one of
its subclasses.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glossary>
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