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Database applications
Software that facilitates communication between a human user and a database.
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Child
Software; Database applications
A value at the level below a given value in a hierarchy. A value can be a child for more than one parent if the child value belongs to multiple hierarchies. See also dimension, hierarchy, level, ...
Sparsity
Software; Database applications
A concept that refers to multidimensional data in which a relatively high percentage of the combinations of dimension values do not contain actual data and that take up storage space in a database.
Churn analysis
Software; Database applications
An application that profiles groups of customers in order to understand issues that impact attrition and customer retention.
Standardised generalised markup language (SGML)
Software; Database applications
An ISO/ANSI/ECMA standard that specifies a way to annotate text documents with information about types of sections of a document.
Level field
Software; Database applications
Data often held in dimension tables that relates to summary data stored in the central fact table.
Knowledge discovery
Software; Database applications
The process of discovering meaningful new correlations, patterns, and trends by sifting through large amounts of data stored in data warehouses using such technologies as pattern recognition, ...
