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Glossary
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Record Occurrence. The actual stored values associated with a record.
Record Type. A record's structure including field names and data types.
Relational Data Base. A data base in which records are related through fields with
common formats and comparable values.
Repeating Group. A data base field that contains more than one data value.
Report. The printed output of an ENFORM query using an ENFORM LIST statement.
Request-qualification. The condition or conditions that a data base element must satisfy
to contribute to the target-record; begins with a WHERE clause followed by a logical
expression.
Reserved words. Keywords with specific meaning and reserved by ENFORM.
Server Query Processor. Specific query processor identified by an ?ATTACH command,
initiated separately from the dedicated query processor started by the ENFORM
compiler.
Session. Period of interaction with ENFORM.
Source Code. The ENFORM statements, clauses, and commands that comprise the
query specifications.
Source File. The Edit file that contains the source code. See also Source Code.
Statement. Main instruction of an ENFORM program.
String Literal. One or more alphanumeric characters enclosed in quotation marks (“ ”).
Subscript. A value used to select a particular element.
System Variable. An ENFORM supplied variable that returns the current time, date, line
number, and page number.
Target Aggregate. An aggregate that appears as a part of the target-record.
Target-file. The file produced by the Query Processor that contains records with all the
information requested in the query specifications.
Target-item. The record names, field names, expressions, variables, aggregates, and
literals, including by-items, whose values appear in a target-record.
Target-list. The record names, field names, expressions, variables, aggregates, and
literals following the keywords LIST or FIND that contribute to the target-record.
Target-lists consist of target-items some of which are by-items. See also By-items and
Target-items.
Target-record. The records generated by the Query Processor from which your
ENFORM output is produced.