Comments - Relational Databases: Basic Terms

4 years, 4 months ago Aye Mann

Dear MariaDB, Possible error: on https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/introduction-to-relational-databases/ it is noted "Each column (also called a tuple)", whereas on https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/relational-databases-basic-terms/ it states "the horizontal rows [records] in the table, also called tuples". Which use of tuple is correct?

Sincerely Aye

 
4 years, 2 months ago NATALIA RATNKOVA

Hello Aye, according to other literature on relational databases, the term 'tuple' applies to the rows[records], and 'attributes' to columns. The first one of the two uses you pointed out is incorrect.

 
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