Parent Table
See: Table, Parent.
Parse; Parsing
Intelligently separating a field value or string into its component parts (e.g. parsing
a Full Name into its five characteristic components: Prefix, First Name, Middle Name
[or Initial], Last Name and Suffix). The opposite action is called concatenation.
Partial Dependency
The value of a non-key field is dependent on only part of the key (usually on one field
of a multi-field key).
Persistent Query
See: Query, Persistent.
Post; Posting
An operation that adds, subtracts or replaces values in one table using values in another.
Primary Key
See: Key, Primary.
Procedural Language
See: Language, Procedural.
Project [DB Asst]
In DB Assistant’s context, a project is central operational denominator, that
encapsulates, and saves for reuse, a user defined assortment of tables, tasks, results
and reports.
Purge; Purging
Also called deduping by the mailing industry, purging, removes duplicate records
from within a single file, table (or mailing list), or those shared among several files,
tables or lists.
See also: Matchcode.
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