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8 <glossary id="glossary">
10 <para>This glossary is still very thinly populated, and not all
11 references in the main text have been properly linked and
12 coordinated with this glossary. This will hopefully change in
17 <glossterm>Active database</glossterm>
18 <glosssee otherterm="gloss-database-object" />
21 <glossterm>Connection</glossterm>
22 <glosssee otherterm="gloss-database-object" />
25 <glossterm>Closed Database</glossterm>
28 An object of type <type>closed-database</type>. This is
29 in contrast to the terms connection, database, active
30 database or <glossterm
31 linkend="gloss-database-object">database object</glossterm>
32 which don't include objects which are closed database.
37 <glossterm>database</glossterm>
38 <glosssee otherterm="gloss-database-object" />
40 <glossentry id="gloss-ffi">
41 <glossterm>Foreign Function Interface
42 (<acronym>FFI</acronym>)
46 An interface from Common Lisp to a external library which
47 contains compiled functions written in other programming
48 languages, typically C.
52 <glossentry id="gloss-database-object">
53 <glossterm>Database Object</glossterm>
55 <para>An object of type <type>database</type>.</para>
58 <glossentry id="gloss-field-types">
59 <glossterm>Field Types Specifier</glossterm>
61 <para>A value that specifies the type of each field in a query.</para>
64 <glossentry id="gloss-sql">
65 <glossterm>Structured Query Language
66 (<acronym>SQL</acronym>)
70 An ANSI standard language for storing and retrieving data
71 in a relational database.
75 <glossentry id="gloss-sql-expression">
76 <glossterm>SQL Expression</glossterm>
78 <para>Either a string containing a valid SQL statement, or
79 an object of type <type>sql-expression</type>.
81 <para>This has not been implemented yet, so only strings
82 are valid SQL expressions for the moment.