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query
[′kwir·ē] (computer science)
A computer instruction to interrogate a data base.
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query
(database, information science)A user's (or agent's)
request for information, generally as a formal request to a
database or search engine.
SQL is the most common database query language.
SQL is the most common database query language.
query
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