Database applications

Database applications

Software that facilitates communication between a human user and a database.

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Entity bean

Software; Database applications

In Java, an enterprise bean that represents persistent data maintained in a database and identified by a primary key. If the container in which an entity bean is hosted crashes, the entity bean, its ...

Entity relationship diagram (ERD)

Software; Database applications

A diagram that pictorially represents entities, the relationships between them, and the attributes used to describe them.

Entity relationship model (ERM)

Software; Database applications

A type of data model. Part of the business model that consists of many entity relationship diagrams.

Exception

Software; Database applications

An event during programme execution that prevents the programme from continuing normally; generally, an error.

Exception handler

Software; Database applications

A block of code that reacts to a specific type of exception. If the exception is for an error that the programme can recover from, the programme can resume executing after the exception handler has ...

Expression

Software; Database applications

One or more data values that can be expressed as arguments to programmes or functions. An expression can be a single, constant value (e.g., 10); a variable or formula that contains one or more ...