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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.
Source: Northwest Database Services, 14 November 2009 11:00:37, http://www.nwdatabase.com/database-glossary-r.htm
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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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Source: DAMA UK, 19 July 2011 10:13:07, http://www.damauk.org/glossary.php
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