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-<glossary>
- <note>
- <para>This glossary is still very thinly populated, and not all
- references in the main text have been properly linked and
- coordinated with this glossary. This will hopefully change in
- future revisions.
- </para>
- </note>
- <glossentry>
- <glossterm>Active database</glossterm>
- <glosssee otherterm="gloss-database-object">
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry>
- <glossterm>Connection</glossterm>
- <glosssee otherterm="gloss-database-object">
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry>
- <glossterm>Closed Database</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- An object of type <type>closed-database</type>. This is
- in contrast to the terms connection, database, active
- database or <glossterm
- linkend="gloss-database-object">database object</glossterm>
- which don't include objects which are closed database.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry>
- <glossterm>database</glossterm>
- <glosssee otherterm="gloss-database-object">
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-ffi">
- <glossterm>Foreign Function Interface
- (<acronym>FFI</acronym>)
- </glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- An interface from Common Lisp to a external library which
- contains compiled functions written in other programming
- languages, typically C.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-database-object">
- <glossterm>Database Object</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>An object of type <type>database</type>.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-field-types">
- <glossterm>Field Types Specifier</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A value that specifies the type of each field in a query.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-sql">
- <glossterm>Structured Query Language
- (<acronym>SQL</acronym>)
- </glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- An ANSI standard language for storing and retrieving data
- in a relational database.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry id="gloss-sql-expression">
- <glossterm>SQL Expression</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>Either a string containing a valid SQL statement, or
- an object of type <type>sql-expression</type><note>
- <para>This has not been implemented yet, so only strings
- are valid SQL expressions for the moment.</para>
- </note>
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-</glossary>
-