| Word |
Description |
| database |
A collection of data records. On web databases, records may consist of web pages, or graphics, or audio files, or newspaper files, or books, or movies, or press releases, or almost anything from very general to very specific areas of interest. Records may or may not be further broken into fields. Database records are usually indexed and come with a search interface to find records of interest. |
| delimiter |
A sequence of characters used to separate the columns. |
| DLL |
A DLL (dynamic link library) is a Windows file that houses a library of functions or data that can be shared across multiple calling applications. When applications use a DLL, they create either a static or dynamic link to the file. |
| DNS |
DNS or Domain Name is a program running on a server which automatically translates Internet domain names into IP numbers. |
| Domain Name |
A domain name is a Web address. The domain name is mapped to an IP address (which represents a physical point on the Internet). Thus, a domain name locates an organization or other entity on the Internet. |
| DTD |
Acronym for Document Type Definition or optionally Document Type Declaration, used in SGML and XML markup languages to specify the set of rules or grammar processed in a particular language. HTML versions each have their own DTD, for example. |
