RELATIONAL DATABASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relational database mean? 

• RELATIONAL DATABASE (noun)
  The noun RELATIONAL DATABASE has 1 sense:

1. a database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes

  Familiarity information: RELATIONAL DATABASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELATIONAL DATABASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

in a relational database the data are organized as a number of differently sized tables

Hypernyms ("relational database" is a kind of...):

computer database; electronic database; electronic information service; on-line database ((computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers)

Instance hyponyms:

Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System; MEDLARS (relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature)

 Context examples 

A multi-user relational database management system for managing animal colonies in a research environment.

(Colony Management System, NCI Thesaurus)

A unique identifier meant to be a common way to identify and access biologically significant data, whether that data is stored in files, relational databases, in applications, or in internal or public data sources.

(Life Sciences Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

The Biostatistics Shared Resource works with Cancer Center investigators to define study/protocol objectives and endpoints, analyze pilot data, select an appropriate study design, blinding methods and randomization scheme, plan interim analyses, define an adequate sample size and accrual rate, develop and evaluate the statistical methods and analyse data, prepare statistical sections of the grant and protocol applications, analyze and design relational databases, forms and reports.

(Biostatistics Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

The Data Compilation and Analysis Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators with design and programming of relational databases for clinical, population and other large-scale studies, development and supervision of a sophisticated data communication and reporting systems, software development for analyzing and interpreting data generated from clinical trials, population studies, microarray and proteomics technologies and other types of translational research.

(Data Compilation and Analysis Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)