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What does relational mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word relational? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Relating to relations.
  2. Friendly and peaceful.
  3. (databases) A database technology using tables and the principles set forth by Dr. Edgar F. Codd. (Contrary to popular notion, "relation" in this context refers to tables, and not linkages.)
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It's a relational noun, which means that a possessive shows who the noun relates to.
As he notes, on this construal, emergent properties will include both relational and non-relational properties.
Your program uses objects, and those objects are automatically transformed into rows, columns and tables in a relational database.
PostgreSQL is an advanced multiuser, relational database management system distributed freely along with its source code.
For example, let's assume that I have to create an extremely large web site that depends on a back-end relational database.
A relational theism must replace the ever-present individualism that haunts modern and postmodern North American culture.

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