Relational may refer to:
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Relational capital, the value inherent in a company's relationships with its customers, vendors, and other important constituencies
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Relational contract, a contract whose effect is based upon a relationship of trust between the parties
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Relational goods Relational goods are non-material goods that can only be produced and consumed within groups, and which are intrinsically linked to relationships and interaction. Popular examples include the enjoyment of a football game in a stadium, where the coll ...
, goods that cannot be enjoyed alone
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Relational Investors, an activist investment fund based in San Diego, California
Computing
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Relational calculus
The relational calculus consists of two calculi, the tuple relational calculus and the domain relational calculus, that are part of the relational model for databases and provide a declarative way to specify database queries. The raison d'être ...
, part of the relational model for databases that provides a declarative way to specify database queries
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Relational database
A relational database is a (most commonly digital) database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A system used to maintain relational databases is a relational database management system (RDBMS). Many relatio ...
, a database that has a collection of tables of data items, all of which is formally described and organized according to the relational model
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Relational classification Relational data mining is the data mining technique for relational
databases.Dzeroski, Saso, Lavrač, Nada (Eds.), Relational Data Mining, Springer 200/ref> Unlike traditional data mining algorithms, which look for
patterns in a single table ( prop ...
, the procedure of performing classification in relational databases
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Relational data mining Relational data mining is the data mining technique for relational
databases.Dzeroski, Saso, Lavrač, Nada (Eds.), Relational Data Mining, Springer 200/ref> Unlike traditional data mining algorithms, which look for
patterns in a single table ( prop ...
, the data mining technique for relational databases
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Relational concept
Relational may refer to:
Business
* Relational capital, the value inherent in a company's relationships with its customers, vendors, and other important constituencies
* Relational contract, a contract whose effect is based upon a relationship of ...
, a set of mathematically defined tuples in
tuple relational calculus
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Relational model
The relational model (RM) is an approach to managing data using a Structure (mathematical logic), structure and language consistent with first-order logic, first-order predicate logic, first described in 1969 by English computer scientist Edgar F. ...
, a database model based on first-order predicate logic
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Relational operator, a programming language construct or operator that tests or defines some kind of relation between two entities
Linguistics
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Relational grammar, a syntactic theory which argues that primitive grammatical relations provide the ideal means to state syntactic rules in universal terms
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Relational noun, a class of words used in many languages
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Relational oppositeness, the relationship between two words which seem to be opposites but actually imply each other
Mathematics
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Relational algebra, an offshoot of first-order logic and of algebra of sets concerned with operations over finitary relations
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Relation (mathematics) such as binary relation, a collection of ordered pairs of elements of a set
Psychology
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Relational aggression or covert bullying, a type of aggression in which harm is caused through damage to one's relationships or social status
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Relational disorder, a disorder affecting a relationship rather than an individual in the relationship
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Relational psychoanalysis, a school of psychoanalysis in the United States that emphasizes the role of real and imagined relationships with others in mental disorder and psychotherapy
Other uses
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Relational art, a mode or tendency in fine art practice originally observed and highlighted by French art critic Nicolas Bourriaud
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Relational dialectics, a concept within communication theory
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Relational theory, a framework to understand reality or a physical system in such a way that the positions and other properties of objects are only meaningful relative to other objects
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Relational schema (disambiguation) In databases, relational schema may refer to
* a database schema, in the relational paradigm
* a (single) relation schema
In database theory, a relation, as originally defined by E. F. Codd, is a set of tuples (d1, d2, ..., dn), wher ...
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