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Acronym Glossary 1NF: first normal form 2NF: second normal form 3NF: third normal form 4NF: fourth normal form 5NF: fifth normal form ADT: abstract data type ANSI: American National Standards Institute BCNF: Boyce-Codd normal form CASE: computer-aided software engineering CLI: command line interface CPU: central processor unit DB: database DBA: database administrator DBMS: database management system DCL: data control language DDL: data definition language DML: data manipulation language DOS: disk operating system DSS: decision support system ERD: entity/relationship diagram GUI: graphical user interface LAN: local area network MPP: massively parallel processor ODS: operational data store OLTP: online transaction processing OSI: Open Systems Interconnection Acronym Glossary PC: personal computer QBE: Query-By-Example RDB: relational database RDBMS: relational database management system SDLC: systems development life cycle SMP: symmetric multiprocessing SPARC: Standards Planning and Requirements Committee (of ANSI/X3) SQL: Structured Query Language SQL3: a post-SQL/92 version of SQL under standards review SQL/92: the 1992 SQL standard TPC: Transaction Processing Council UMUC: University of Maryland University College VLDB: very large database WAN: wide area network WFF: well-formed formula Return to top of page