relational

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Relational means to do with how things stand in relation to each other. Relational database, relational skills, a relational approach.

The database sense is the important one, since a relational database stores tables that refer to one another rather than one great list, and almost every system in the world runs on that idea. In care work it means treating the relationship as the method.

Definitions of relational

1adjectiverelationalTo do with how things stand in relation to each other.C1
“Good managers pay attention to the relational side of the job, not just the numbers.”

relational is a quality.

Where it comes from

From relation plus -al, with the database sense from relation in its mathematical meaning.

From relation + al. The database sense is from the definition of relation as a set of ordered tuples.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

relational in the wild

In the 2000s, non-relational databases became popular, collectively referred to as NoSQL, because they use different query languages.
Database
MySQL () is a free and open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).
MySQL
A relational database organizes data into one or more data tables in which data may be related to each other; these relations help structure the data.
MySQL
A relational database (RDB) is a database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E.
Relational database
Many relational database systems are equipped with the option of using SQL (Structured Query Language) for querying and updating the database.
Relational database

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