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Relation - definition(s)

Relation - Synonymous with table. Mostly used in large DBMS terminology, a relation is the basic collection of data in a relational database, usually represented as a two-dimensional array of rows and columns (records and fields), containing single value entries, and no duplicate rows.

See also: Table.

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Relation - The basic structure in the relational model of data - formally a set of tuples, but informally visualised as a table with rows and columns.

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