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 trust between the parties *

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 * Relational Investors, an activist investment fund based in San Diego, California

Computing

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 *

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 **

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 **

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 *

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 *

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 * Relational operator, a programming language construct or operator that tests or defines some kind of relation between two entities

Linguistics

* Relational grammar, a syntactic theory which argues that primitive grammatical relations provide the ideal means to state syntactic rules in universal terms * Relational noun, a class of words used in many languages * Relational oppositeness, the relationship between two words which seem to be opposites but actually imply each other

Mathematics

* Relational algebra, an offshoot of first-order logic and of algebra of sets concerned with operations over finitary relations * Relation (mathematics) such as binary relation, a collection of ordered pairs of elements of a set

Psychology

* Relational aggression or covert bullying, a type of aggression in which harm is caused through damage to one's relationships or social status * Relational disorder, a disorder affecting a relationship rather than an individual in the relationship * 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