Sybase 3.8 - Manual (Page 44)

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Installation Guide
structures, and functions that can be used by an application program to
invoke New Era of Networks Rules, Formatter, and Messaging services.
Plural: APIs.
argument
In the New Era of Networks Rules GUI, an argument is evaluation criteria made up of fields from a
message and associated operators.
ASCII
Abbreviation for American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
asynchronous
In electronic messaging, a method of operation in which receiving applications are loosely coupled
and independent. The receiver need not respond immediately to a message, and the sender does not
have to wait for a response before proceeding with the next operation. Compare to synchronous.
Boolean operators
Boolean logic allows for compound conditional statements, using logical operators including AND
and OR.
client
A system or process that requests a service from another system or process.
client-server
A paradigm for distributed computing under which the system is split between one or more server
tasks which accept requests according to some protocol, and client tasks which request information
or actions. Clients and servers can be placed independently on network nodes.
cross-platform
Used to describe programs that can execute in dissimilar computing environments.
data type
Describes how to interpret the data.
DBMS
Abbreviation for Database Management System.
delimiter
One or more characters marking either the beginning or end of a field of data.
daemon
In UNIX, a program that executes in the background. Also known as agents, daemons only activate
when defined system conditions become true. For example, a daemon may activate when the
system clock reaches 2:00 a.m. every other Saturday. Another daemon may activate when the
system senses the arrival of e-mail.
field
The smallest possible container for information. You can use a field in more than one table. If the
first_name field exists in one table, for example, you can use the same field in other tables.