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    snowflaking (snowflake schema)

    In data warehousing, snowflaking is a form of dimensional modeling in which dimensions are stored in multiple related dimension tables.

  • spatial data

    Spatial data is any type of data that directly or indirectly references a specific geographical area or location.

  • star schema

    A star schema is a database organizational structure optimized for use in a data warehouse or business intelligence that uses a single large fact table to store transactional or measured data, and one or more smaller dimensional tables that store attributes about the data.

  • stream processing

    Stream processing is a data management technique that involves ingesting a continuous data stream to quickly analyze, filter, transform or enhance the data in real time.

  • What is semantic technology?

    Semantic technology is a set of methods and tools that provide advanced means for categorizing and processing data, as well as for discovering relationships within varied data sets.

  • What is SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)?

    SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is a SQL Server subsystem that enables the creation of graphical, mobile and printed reports using SQL Server and other data sources.

  • What is Structured Query Language (SQL)?

    Structured Query Language (SQL) is a standardized programming language that is used to manage relational databases and perform various operations on the data in them.

  • T

    T-SQL (Transact-SQL)

    T-SQL (Transact-SQL) is a set of programming extensions from Sybase and Microsoft that add several features to the Structured Query Language (SQL), including transaction control, exception and error handling, row processing and declared variables.

  • TensorFlow

    TensorFlow is an open source framework developed by Google researchers to run machine learning, deep learning and other statistical and predictive analytics workloads.

  • transcription error

    A transcription error is a type of data entry error commonly made by human operators or by optical character recognition (OCR) programs.

  • tree structure

    A tree data structure is an algorithm for placing and locating files (called records or keys) in a database.

  • V

    What is a vector database?

    A vector database is a type of database technology that's used to store, manage and search vector embeddings, numerical representations of unstructured data that are also referred to simply as vectors.