Glossary - V to Z
Data Migration Glossary This data migration glossary has been split into sections for faster loading. You can access the complete glossary by following the link, or use the search engine below to find specific terms. |

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Validation
VLDB
- Very Large DataBase.
VMS
- The VMS operating system is a proprietary operating system manufactured by the company Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), who were purchased by Compaq - who in turn were puchased by Hewlett Packard. VMS used to run exclusively on VAX processors, but newer machines of DEC can also run VMS on ALPHA processors (also called AXP processors). The latter can also run the OSF/1 flavour of UNIX. VMS is called OpenVMS today. You can learn more about VMS here.

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Warehouse
- A permanent database formed of a collection of data extracted and abstracted from source systems
Weed (data)
- Removing Unnecessary, unused or unwanted data either for Legal, efficiency or clarity reasons

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XML - EXtensible Mark-Up Language
- A pared-down version of SGML, designed for web documents. It allows the creation of customized tags, enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data.

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