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5 <para>This glossary is still very thinly populated, and not all
6 references in the main text have been properly linked and
7 coordinated with this glossary. This will hopefully change in
12 <glossterm>Active database</glossterm>
13 <glosssee otherterm="gloss-database-object">
16 <glossterm>Connection</glossterm>
17 <glosssee otherterm="gloss-database-object">
20 <glossterm>Closed Database</glossterm>
23 An object of type <type>closed-database</type>. This is
24 in contrast to the terms connection, database, active
25 database or <glossterm
26 linkend="gloss-database-object">database object</glossterm>
27 which don't include objects which are closed database.
32 <glossterm>database</glossterm>
33 <glosssee otherterm="gloss-database-object">
35 <glossentry id="gloss-ffi">
36 <glossterm>Foreign Function Interface
37 (<acronym>FFI</acronym>)
41 An interface from Common Lisp to a external library which
42 contains compiled functions written in other programming
43 languages, typically C.
47 <glossentry id="gloss-database-object">
48 <glossterm>Database Object</glossterm>
50 <para>An object of type <type>database</type>.</para>
53 <glossentry id="gloss-sql">
54 <glossterm>Structured Query Language
55 (<acronym>SQL</acronym>)
59 An ANSI standard language for storing and retrieving data
60 in a relational database.
64 <glossentry id="gloss-sql-expression">
65 <glossterm>SQL Expression</glossterm>
67 <para>Either a string containing a valid SQL statement, or
68 an object of type <type>sql-expression</type><note>
69 <para>This has not been implemented yet, so only strings
70 are valid SQL expressions for the moment.</para>