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relational database
n.
A database system in which any field can be a component of more than one of the database's tables.
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rela′tional da′tabase
n.
an electronic database comprising multiple files of related information, usu. stored in tables of rows (records) and columns (fields), and allowing a link to be established between separate files that have a matching field, as a column of invoice numbers, so that the two files can be queried simultaneously by the user.
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| Noun | 1. | relational database - a database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes; "in a relational database the data are organized as a number of differently sized tables" computer database, electronic database, electronic information service, on-line database - (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers |
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relační databáze
relaatiotietokanta