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Database applications
Software that facilitates communication between a human user and a database.
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Collation
Software; Database applications
Ordering of character strings according to rules about sorting characters that are associated with a language in a specific locale. Also called linguistic sort.
Application programme interface
Software; Database applications
A set of public programmatic interfaces that consist of a language and message format to communicate with an operating system or other programmatic environment, such as databases, Web servers, JVMs, ...
Business-to-Business
Software; Database applications
A term describing the communication between businesses in the selling of goods and services to each other. The software infrastructure to enable this is referred to as an exchange.
Business-to-Consumer
Software; Database applications
A term describing the communication between businesses and consumers in the selling of goods and services.
BFILES
Software; Database applications
External binary files that exist outside the database tablespaces residing in the operating system. BFILES are referenced from the database semantics, and are also known as External LOBs.
Binary Large Object
Software; Database applications
A Large Object datatype whose content consists of binary data. Additionally, this data is considered raw as its structure is not recognised by the database.
Callback
Software; Database applications
A programmatic technique in which one process starts another and then continues. The second process then calls the first as a result of an action, value, or other event. This technique is used in ...
