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  2. Database index - Wikipedia

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    A database index is a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations on a database table at the cost of additional writes and storage space to maintain the index data structure. Indexes are used to quickly locate data without having to search every row in a database table every time said table is accessed.

  3. Database trigger - Wikipedia

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    Limited support for triggers in the MySQL/MariaDB DBMS was added in the 5.0 version of MySQL, launched in 2005. [4] As of version 8.0, they allow for DDL (Data Definition Language) triggers and for DML (Data Manipulation Language) triggers. They also allow either type of DDL trigger (AFTER or BEFORE) to be used to define triggers.

  4. Record (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    A record type is a data type that describes such values and variables. Most modern programming languages allow the programmer to define new record types. The definition includes specifying the data type of each field and an identifier (name or label) by which it can be accessed. In type theory, product types (with no field names) are generally ...

  5. Star schema - Wikipedia

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    This can result in the accumulation of a large number of records in a fact table over time. Fact tables are defined as one of three types: Transaction fact tables record facts about a specific event (e.g., sales events) Snapshot fact tables record facts at a given point in time (e.g., account details at month end)

  6. MySQL - Wikipedia

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    MySQL (/ ˌ m aɪ ˌ ɛ s ˌ k juː ˈ ɛ l /) [6] is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). [6] [7] Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter My, [1] and "SQL", the acronym for Structured Query Language.

  7. Temporal database - Wikipedia

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    Datalog queries, complete data history, and SQL analytics support." For every change made to the data, it records the responsible transaction and the point in time when it happened. [18] Temporal databases were one of the earliest forms of data version control, and influenced the development of modern data versioning systems. [19]

  8. Row (database) - Wikipedia

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    In a relational database, a row or "record" or "tuple", represents a single, implicitly structured data item in a table. A database table can be thought of as consisting of rows and columns. [1] Each row in a table represents a set of related data, and every row in the table has the same structure.

  9. Materialized view - Wikipedia

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    Materialized views that store data based on remote tables were also known as snapshots [5] (deprecated Oracle terminology). In any database management system following the relational model, a view is a virtual table representing the result of a database query. Whenever a query or an update addresses an ordinary view's virtual table, the DBMS ...