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| infrastructure | The basic framework or features of a system. |
| grid computing | A global effort to develop an environment in which individual users can access computers, databases and experimental facilities simply and transparently, without having to consider where those facilities are located. |
| database | A collection of data arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval. an integraded collection of logically related records |
| logistics | The planning, execution and control of the movement and placement of people and/or goods, and of the supporting activities related to such movement and placement within a system organized to achieve specific objectives. |
| software | The programs, routines, and symbolic languages that control the functioning of the hardware and direct its operation. |
| hardware | A computer and the associated physical equipment directly involved in the performance of data-processing or communications functions. |
| venture capitalist (VC) | A speculator who makes money available for innovative projects (especially in high technology.) |
| finance | The management of money, banking, investments, and credit. |
| graphical user interface (GUI) | An interface for issuing commands to a computer utilizing a pointing device, such as a mouse, that manipulates and activates graphical images on a monitor. |
| operating system (OS) | Software designed to control the hardware of a specific data-processing system in order to allow users and application programs to make use of it. |
| commerce | The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities. |
| procurement | To get by special effort; obtain or acquire. All of the processes involved in requesting, ordering, auditing, and paying for goods and services. |
| distribution | The commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer. |
| data | A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn. Raw material. |
| information | Intelligence, knowledge of a particular piece of data with a special meaning or function. It is some type of study or knowledge that you gained |
| Primary key (PK) | The unique identifier for each row of data. A constraint which ensures that the column contains no null values and uniquely identifies each row of the table, or unique identifier of each row of data in a table; it must contain a value and it must be unique. |
| Foreign key (FK) | Links data from one table to another by referring to a column in another table. A column or set of columns that defines how tables relate to each other; this column or set of columns refers to a in the same table or another table, or Referential Integrity Constraint, designates a column or combination of columns child table as the column(s) that establishes a relationship between a primary key or a unique key in the same table and a different table |
| Null | A value that is unavailable, unassigned, unknown, or inapplicable; it is not a zero or space |
| Unique | An integrity constraint that requires every value in a column or set of columns be unique. |
| Datatype | Refers to the format and definition of the data in each column. A classification identifying one of various types of data, stating the possible values for that type, the operations that can be done on that type, and the way the values of that type are stored. |
| Client (hardware) | Client refers to a workstation or desktop computer including a screen, keyboard, & mouse which communicates directly with the user. (Client can also refer to customer for which services are being rendered.) |
| Server | A powerful computer dedicated to accepting work requests from clients, does the work, and sends results back to the user or client. A combination of hardware and software. |
| Application | In general a software program which carries out specific tasks on behalf of computer users. Related to databases, a collection of database-driven Web pages linked together using tabs, buttons, or hypertext links |
| Table Instance Chart | A relational database design used to map the information in the entity relationship model. (Entity = table, instance = row, attribute = column, etc) |
