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Re: Terminological question: What is dataset in context of SQL?

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Subject Re: Terminological question: What is dataset in context of SQL?
Date Fri, 02 Oct 2015 09:47:50 +0100
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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

> Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> writes:
>>Dataset are data from one SQL table or it is a dataset even in the case when 
>>we join several tables?
>
>   In SQL proper, the word »dataset« has no meaning.
>
>   It might have a meaning in some SQL-related software or culture.
>
>   The data from an SQL table is called »table«.
>
>   The result of a JOIN operation also is a table (a »derived table«).

Thank you, that makes sense: I took a SyBase DB / relational calculus
course years ago and have worked in recent years plenty with PostgreSQL
and also some Oracle and I never ran into the term "dataset" in that
context.

-- Mark

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Terminological question: What is dataset in context of SQL? Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2015-09-30 23:59 +0300
  Re: Terminological question: What is dataset in context of SQL? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-09-30 22:31 +0100
  Re: Terminological question: What is dataset in context of SQL? Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2015-10-02 09:47 +0100

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