Terms starting with S

9 terms in Databases

  • Savepoint

    Databases › Transactions

    A savepoint is a named marker inside a database transaction that allows a partial rollback to that point without aborting the whole…

  • Schema

    Databases › Database fundamentals

    A schema in databases is the formal definition of how data is organized, including its tables, columns, data types, keys and constraints.

  • SELECT

    Databases › SQL

    SELECT is the SQL statement that retrieves data from database tables, declaring which rows and columns to return and leaving the execution…

  • Sharding

    Databases › Performance

    Sharding splits a database horizontally across several servers by a shard key, so each server stores and serves only part of the…

  • Slow query log

    Databases › Performance

    A slow query log is a database log that records SQL statements exceeding a set execution time, used to find and fix…

  • SQLite

    Databases › Database systems

    SQLite is an embedded, serverless relational database engine that stores a complete SQL database in a single file inside the application.

  • Star schema

    Databases › Data modeling

    A star schema is a data modeling pattern that places one central fact table of measurements among denormalized dimension tables for fast…

  • Subquery

    Databases › SQL

    A subquery in SQL is a SELECT statement nested inside another statement, supplying a value, a list or a derived table to…

  • Synchronous replication

    Databases › Replication

    Synchronous replication is a database replication mode in which a commit succeeds only after one or more replicas confirm they have received…