Archives: Glossary Terms

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Support

  Definition: Support is a service that is provided to business users in order to resolve basic questions to advanced systemic or technical issues. What

Synchronous

  Definition: Synchronous events are coordinated in time. What This Means: For example, the interval between transmitting A and B is the same as between

System

  Definition: A system is more than one software application working together to achieve more than the individual applications can do on their own. What

System Redundancy

  Definition: System redundancy is the duplication of critical components of a system with the intention of increasing reliability of the system, usually in

T1 Line

  Definition: A dedicated digital communications connection supporting data rates of 1.544Mbits per second. A T1 line consists of 24 individual channels, each of

Table Description

  Definition: Table Description is a free-form text description of the repository table contents and purpose. What This Means: A term that is functional for

Table Field

  Definition: A cell and its contents are defined by the row and column within a table. What This Means: This term has the same

Table Name

  Definition: Table Name is the free-form text name of the table within the database management system. What This Means: A term that is functional

Table Title

  Definition: A descriptive phrase used to identify the relational table. Sufficient adjectival modifiers are used with the phrase to ensure unique identification.   Need another

Table Type

  Definition: Table Type is a characterization of the table: Operational, Archive, Development, Longitudinal, Look-up, etc. The choices for this list can be edited