Glossary:Definition - Relational Database Management System
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| Term | Relational Database Management System | |
| Definition | RDBMS is a database management system (DBMS) with the ability to access data organized in tabular files—tables—that can be related to each other by a common field—key. RDBMS can access data items from different tables to create new tables—join.
Invented in the early 1970s by an IBM funded team lead by Dr. Edmund F. Codd, RDBMS embodies the Relational Model which is derived from principles of relational algebra. Modern RDBMS include DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, and Sybase. | |
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| This C# Online.NET definition is from the Glossary of .NET / C# Terms. | ||
