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                  <h6><a name="lan" id="lan"></a>LAN</h6>
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                    <li>As a network term, a protocol server;</li>
                    <li>As a Web term, an interface between an external source 
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                  <h6> <a name="linkfield" id="linkfield"></a>link field</h6>
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                      by an at sign ( @ ). Also known as a generic retrieval.</li>
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                  <h6> <a name="linkedlist" id="linkedlist"></a>linked list</h6>
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                    <li>a degree of detail data in a data warehouse where &quot;high 
                      granularity&quot; indicates a large quantity of detail with 
                      little summarization. &quot;Low granularity&quot; indicates 
                      a small quantity of detail, or data greatly reduced through 
                      summarization.</li>
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                  <h6> <a name="listeningport" id="listeningport"></a>listening 
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                  <h6> <a name="literal" id="literal"></a>literal</h6>
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                  <h6><a name="logicallink"></a>logical link</h6>
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                  <h6><a name="lowcardinality"></a>low cardinality</h6>
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                    <li> Low column cardinality indicates a low number of unique 
                      values in a column. For example, a &quot;Yes/No&quot; column 
                      has low cardinality because it has only two possible values.</li>
                    <li>See cardinality.</li>
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                  <h6><a name="lowercase" id="lowercase"></a>lower case</h6>
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                      A is upper case. See also: <a href="Glossary%20U.htm#uppercase">upper 
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