Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

relational database

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.20 in modern English

Syllables: re-la-tion-al -database
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A database consisting of separate tables, having explicitly defined relationships, and whose elements may be selectively combined as the results of queries.

Etymology

From the use of relation to denote a set of ordered tuples, i.e. a table in the context of a relational database.

Inflected Forms

relational databases (plural)

Phrases

hierarchical database relational model relational attribute

Frequently Paired Words

hierarchical database normalization SQL relational model relational attribute

Questions

What does relational database mean?: A database consisting of separate tables, having explicitly defined relationships, and whose elements may be selectively combined as the results of queries.
Where does relational database come from?: From the use of relation to denote a set of ordered tuples, i.e. a table in the context of a relational database.

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