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Newer page: version 4 Last edited on Saturday, June 25, 2005 8:24:43 am by AristotlePagaltzis
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-[Acronym] for __R__elational __D__ata__B__ase __M__anagement __S__ystem%%%  
-See DataBase. 
+An [Acronym] for RelationalDataBase __M__anagement __S__ystem.  
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+A DataBase by itself is very little use without the supporting infrastructure of management tools, converters, a shell, etc. The combination of a RelationalDataBase along with all the tools required to operate it is called an [RDBMS]. Examples include [Oracle], [MySQL], [PostgreSQL], [Microsoft] SQL Server, Informix, [Borland] Interbase, ~FireBird and [IBM] [DB2]