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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | DB2 |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It has a long history and was what some consider to be the first database product to use SQL. According to Michael Stonebraker, when IBM chose to make SQL the standard for database query languages by announcing its inclusion into DB2, Oracle seized the opportunity to trumpet that it too used SQL.
Currently, there is a dogfight going on between DB2 and Oracle for the number 1 position in the market. Historically, it is interesting to note that when Informix acquired Illustra and introduced make their database engine a object-relational database by introducing their Universal Server, both Oracle and IBM followed suit by changing their database engines to be capable of object-relational extensions. Technically, DB2 can be considered to be an object-relational database.
DB2 started out on the mainframe but soon migrated down through UNIX and Windows servers to PDAs.
DB2 is also the designation of an Aston Martin sportscar dating from the early 1960s.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "DB2."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DB2 | English | DataBase 2 | Computer - (IBM, DB) |
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Crosswords: DB2 |
| Specialty definitions using "DB2": multiple value ♦ OD390 ♦ Virtual Machine, Virtual Sequential Access Method ♦ Watcom VX*REXX. (references) |
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| "DB2" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DB2" is used about 98 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Unclassified Items | 100% | 98 | 33,072 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 42 32 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000010 00110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D B 2 |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0042 0032 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)383620 |
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