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Key Terms

Column

A vertical division in a table. A column represents a category of information, for example, employee last name.

Table

A presentation of data as a series of rows and columns.

• ASF tables refers to tables associated with the IDMSR schema.
• SQL tables refers to tables associated with an SQL schema.

Row

A horizontal division in a table. A row represents one data occurrence, for example, information about each employee.

Selection criteria

An expression that specifies which rows of a table are to be selected for processing.