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This is a glossary of commonly used data warehousing, database and UCSD specific terms. This list is not designed to be conclusive. If there are any glaring omissions or obvious falsehoods please report them to the address listed at the end of the page.

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Additive Fact
Additive facts are measurements in a fact table that are able to be added across all of the dimensions.
alias
A short substitute or "nickname" for a table name.
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. An eight-bit code for character representation; includes seven bits plus parity.