A standard database access method developed to make it possible to access any data from any application, regardless of which…
A type of computer processing in which the computer responds immediately to user requests. Each request is considered to be…
A category of software tools that provides analysis of data stored in a database. OLAP tools enable users to analyze…
A method in which programmers define not only the type of data structure, but also the types of operations (functions…
A type of database that is optimized for data warehousing and online analytical processing (OLAP) applications (see online analytical processing).…
A mechanism that keeps the specific physical address of data or an object unknown to the user. This is done…
A system for storing, maintaining, and retrieving location information. One technique is to locate a specific position with respect to…