English Explanatory Dictionary

relational database

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A database consisting of separate tables, having explicitly defined relationships, and whose elements may be selectively combined as the results of queries.

Word forms

relational database relational databases

Etymology

From the use of relation to denote a set of ordered tuples, i.e. a table in the context of a relational database.

Related words

hierarchical database normalization SQL relational model relational attribute
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