InfoWorld

‘Futuristic’ Unison functional language debuts

Functional language based on ‘content-addressed code’ promises to simplify distributed programming and eliminate builds and ...
Nature

Data Quality and Functional Dependencies in Databases

The integrity of database systems is increasingly dependent on maintaining high data quality while enforcing robust consistency rules. Data quality encompasses the accuracy, completeness, and ...
PC Magazine

functional dependency

A direct relationship between data elements in a relational database. Functional dependency (FD) states that one data element is dependent on another. For example, social security number (SSN), ...
PC Magazine

transitive dependency

An indirect relationship between data elements in a database. For example, social security number is a transitive dependency of date-of-birth (SSN->DOB), because it is dependent on name (SSN->NAME), ...