Relational Database - Terminology

Terminology

Relational database theory uses a set of mathematical terms, which are roughly equivalent to SQL database terminology. The table below summarizes some of the most important relational database terms and their SQL database equivalents.

Relational term SQL equivalent
relation, base relvar table
derived relvar view, query result, result set
tuple row
attribute (name) column name
relation scheme, set of attributes set of column names
attribute value column (data)

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