SQL/MP Glossary

Glossary

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SQL conversational interface

SQL conversational interface. See SQLCI (SQL conversational interface).

SQL data structure. Any of three data structures that an SQL program can include: SQLCA

(SQL communications area), SQLDA (SQL descriptor area), and SQLSA (SQL

statistics area).

SQL descriptor area. See SQLDA (SQL descriptor area)

SQL executor. See executor

SQL file system. See file system

SQL identifier. A name used for a column, constraint, correlation, cursor, or prepared

command or statement.

SQL load time. The time when an SQL program executes its first SQL statement. Contrast

with SQL compile time

and SQL statement execution time.

SQL name. The name of an SQL object (tables, views, indexes, collations, and constraints)

or catalog.

SQL object. See object

SQL object program. The set of executable machine language instructions in an object file

produced by compiling a host-language source program containing embedded SQL

statements. An SQL object program is produced by sequential execution of a

host language compiler and the SQL compiler.

SQL object version. See object version

SQL optimizer. See optimizer

SQL preprocessor. The NonStop SQL/MP component that processes a COBOL85 language

source program with embedded SQL statements for subsequent compilation and

execution. The preprocessed COBOL85 source can be submitted to the COBOL85

compiler, and the result of that compilation can subsequently be submitted to the SQL

compiler.

SQL program. A host-language program containing embedded SQL statements to be

compiled by the SQL compiler, or an object program compiled by the SQL compiler.