Glossary

Note

This glossary is still very thinly populated, and not all references in the main text have been properly linked and coordinated with this glossary. This will hopefully change in future revisions.

Active database

See Database Object.

Connection

See Database Object.

Closed Database

An object of type closed-database. This is in contrast to the terms connection, database, active database or database object which don't include objects which are closed database.

database

See Database Object.

Foreign Function Interface (FFI)

An interface from Common Lisp to a external library which contains compiled functions written in other programming languages, typically C.

Database Object

An object of type database.

Field Types Specifier

A value that specifies the type of each field in a query.

Structured Query Language (SQL)

An ANSI standard language for storing and retrieving data in a relational database.

SQL Expression

Either a string containing a valid SQL statement, or an object of type sql-expression.

Note

This has not been implemented yet, so only strings are valid SQL expressions for the moment.