- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 318110
- Number of blossaries: 26
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An American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing.
A small amount of memory set aside for the purpose of storing data read from, or soon to be written to, a disk. Because disk devices are slow compared with the CPU, it is not efficient to access the disk for only one or two bytes of data. Instead, during a read, a large chunk of data is read and stored in the disk buffer. When the program wants information, it is copied from the buffer. Many requests for data can be satisfied by a single disk access. The same technique can be applied to disk writes. When the program has information to store, it writes it into the disk buffer area in memory. When the buffer has been filled, the entire contents of the buffer are written to the disk in a single operation.
Industry:Software
The operation in which a number is raised to a given power, as in 23. In computer programs and programming languages, exponentiation is often shown by a caret (^), as in 2^3.
Industry:Software
A Web-based application that is AD FS-enabled, meaning that it can be accessed by federated users.
Industry:Software
A predefined role that exists in each database. The scope of the role is limited to the database in which it is defined.
Industry:Software
The box where the rulers meet, in the upper-left corner of a form in Design view. Use the box to perform form-level operations, such as selecting the form.
Industry:Software
