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MDK

MLH

Multi Level Hierarchies

MDD

  • Multidimensional Database; a database architecture used to perform OLAP by summarizing data into a special database structure. See OLAP.

MDK Index

  • Multi-dimensional Keyword Index.

Meta-data

  • Also meta data; data which describes data, i.e., data characteristics such as field name, field length for data storage requirements, data type, field definition, data source, etc.

Metrics

  • Columns or fields that are used to summarize data;
  • Columns that are used by the functions SUM, MIN, MAX, and AVG in container applications.

Mode

  • an intrinsic parameter that specifies what type of action is to be performed.

Multi-dimensional

  • A database design in which data is viewed using more than two sets of criteria.

Multi-dimensional Keyword Index

  • Composite (one or more items from a field) keyword keys composed of data from one or more tables. Also known as MDK Indexes. See OMNIDEX indexes and keyword indexes.

Multifind

  • a retrieval feature that supports keyword searches across domains using field values from previously qualified records as keyword arguments against a table in a different domain.

Multiple key

  • A field specified for OMNIDEX keyword retrieval. See OMNIDEX indexes, keyword indexes and MDK Index.

Multiple key access

  • The ability of OMNIDEX to qualify records based on arguments entered against several keys.

Multi-RIN (MR) capability

  • A feature used to lock several data resources simultaneously. This capability is used by programs that update or lock OMNIDEX databases, data sets, or items.
 
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