IBExpert glossary
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The majority of definitions can be found in the relevant IBExpert subject areas. This glossary includes both links to those definitions as well as a number of miscellaneous definitions that could not be allotted to individual IBExpert or Firebird subjects.
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| A - B | C - D | E - G | H - J | K - M | N - O | P - R | S - T | U - Z |
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| A |
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- Active tables
- Active transactions
- Aggregate functions
- Alias
- Alias key
- Alternate key
- API (Application Program Interface)
- Application
- Array
- Artificial key
- ASCII
- AST (Asyncronous System Trap)
- Autoincrement
- Autocommit
- Autonomous transaction
| B |
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- Background garbage collection
- BDE (Borland Database Engine)
- Benchmark
- BIGINT (BIG INTEGER)
- BINARY, VARBINARY, BINARY VARYING
- Blob (Binary Large OBject)
- Blob filter
- BLR (Binary Language Representation)
- Bookmark
- BOOLEAN data type
- Buffers
| C |
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- Candidate key
- Cascading referential integrity
- CGI (Common Gateway Interface)
- CHAR
- Charset / Character set
- Check constraint
- CLI (Command-Line Interface)
- Client/server
- CLSID
- Clustering
- Collate / Collation
- Column
- Combined garbage collection
- Comdiag
- Comments
- Compile and Commit / Rollback
- Composite/compound key
- Conditional test
- Constant
- Constraint
- Conversion functions
- Cooperative garbage collection
- CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
| D |
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- Data
- Data set
- Data type
- Database
- Database shadow
- Database sweep
- Database trigger
- DATE
- DBMS (Database Management System)
- DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange)
- DECFLOAT (Firebird 4.0)
- DECIMAL
- Default
- Default character set
- Dependencies
- DLL (Dynamic Link Library)
- Domain
- DOUBLE PRECISION
- DPB (Database Parameter Buffer)
- DSRI (Digital Standard Relational Interface)
- DYN
| E |
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| F |
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| G |
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- Garbage collection
- Garbage collection, background
- Garbage collection, combined
- Garbage collection, cooperative
- Garbage collection, manual
- GBK files
- GDB files
- GDEF
- GDML (Groton Data Manipulation Language)
- Generator
- gpre
- GRC files
- GUID (Globally Unique Identifier)
| H |
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| I |
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- ICU (International Components for Unicode)
- IDAPI (Integrated Database Application Programming Interface)
- IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
- IDENTITY data type
- In limbo transactions
- Index
- INT (INTEGER)
- ISAPI (Internet Server Application Programming Interface)
- Isolation level
| J |
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| K |
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| L |
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| M |
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- Manual garbage collection
- MDI (Multiple Document Interface)
- Metadata
- MGA (Multi-generational architecture)
- MVCC (Multi-Version Concurrency Control)
| N |
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| O |
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- OAT (Oldest Active Transaction)
- ODAPI (Open Database Application Programming Interface)
- ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity)
- ODS version
- OIT (Oldest Interesting Transaction)
- OLAP (Online Analytical Processing)
- OLE (Object Linking and Embedding)
- OLTP (Online Transaction Processing)
- Operand
- Operator
- Orphan pages
| P |
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| Q |
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| R |
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- RDBMS (Relational Database Management System)
- Recompile
- Recompute selectivity
- Referential integrity
- Regular expression
- Replication
- RLE (Run Length Encoding)
- Role
- Row
| S |
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- SDI (Single Document Interface)
- Secondary files
- Secondary key
- Segment size (blob)
- Sequence
- Shadow
- Simple key
- SMALLINT (SMALLINTEGER)
- SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing)
- SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
- SQL dialect
- Statement (definition)
- Stored Procedure
- String
- Subtype (blob)
- Surrogate key
- Sweep interval
- System object
| T |
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- Table
- Table trigger
- TID (Transaction ID)
- TIME
- TIMESTAMP
- TIME ZONE (Firebird 4.0)
- TIP (Transaction Inventory Page)
- TLS (Thread-local storage)
- Transaction
- Transaction, active
- Transaction mask
- Transaction number column
- Transactions in limbo
- Trigger
- Two-phase commit
| U |
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- UDF (User-Defined Function)
- Unique field
- URI (Uniform Resource Identifier)
- URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
- URN (Uniform Resource Name)
| V |
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| W |
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| Y |
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