Hi,
I've noticed people here are using the term "Pivot" table for what was called an XRef table in the JCook docs.
Outside of here, I think it is called a Join Table, Relational Table, Associative Table or Link Table. The Wikipedia used to call it a Junction Table - but now calls it Associative table -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_entity . Personally I'm one for "Join Table".
There is a discussion on this topic here on stackoverflow...
stackoverflow.com/questions/1429908/is-t...-table-in-a-database
Is it correct to use the term Pivot table? People confuse it with Excel Pivot tables. I am relatively old, self taught and isolated from the rest of the world - so maybe I'm just confused an ignorant? Please correct me.
Should we have a Database Definitions page (or add it to the Glossary in docs) so we are all talking the same language?
I don't know about you guys, I'm also used to using the terms "row" and "column". Also FK could be added to the glossary.