This glossary is still very thinly populated, and not all references in the main text have been properly linked and coordinated with this glossary. This will hopefully change in future revisions.
See Database Object.
See Database Object.
An object of type closed-database. This is in contrast to the terms connection, database, active database or database object which don't include objects which are closed database.
See Database Object.
An interface from Common Lisp to a external library which contains compiled functions written in other programming languages, typically C.
An object of type database.
A value that specifies the type of each field in a query.
An ANSI standard language for storing and retrieving data in a relational database.
Either a string containing a valid SQL statement, or an object of type sql-expression.
This has not been implemented yet, so only strings are valid SQL expressions for the moment.