rdb

(2)A roll-your-own database, created in the Unix toolkitphilosophy. It appears to be written in the awk language,and is very compatible with awk. It uses awk's syntax and canbe combined with awk commands.

The definitive introduction is "Unix Relational DatabaseManagement: Application Development in the Unix Environment",by Rod Manis, Evan Schaeffer, and Robert Jorgensen, publishedby Prentice Hall. The book tells how to use rdb to createdatabase/spreadsheets in the awk tradition, only easier. It'sa good way to get into programming for novices. It's also agood way to learn DB theory and construction quite painlessly.

RDB

Acronym	Definition
RDB➣Reference Design Board (various companies)
RDB➣Receptor Data Base
RDB➣Replace Database with Blanks
RDB➣Remote Data Base
RDB➣Relative Data Base
RDB➣Run Disk Backwards
RDB➣Relation Descriptor Block
RDB➣Resource Data Base
RDB➣Recibo de Depósito Bancário (Portuguese: Bank Deposit Receipt; Brazil)
RDB➣Resource Database (various organizations)
RDB➣Rocco DeLuca and the Burden (band)
RDB➣Rwanda Development Board
RDB➣Revenu Disponible Brut (French: Gross Disposable Income)
RDB➣Relational Data Base
RDB➣Rigid Disk Block
RDB➣Rural Development Bank
RDB➣Research and Development Board
RDB➣Receive Data Buffer
RDB➣Rear Disc Brake (automobiles)
RDB➣Regional Development Bank
RDB➣Rare Disease Database
RDB➣Reference Data Base
RDB➣Radio des Boutières (French broadcasting company)
RDB➣Rand de Basanti (actor)
RDB➣Residential Distribution Box
RDB➣Requirements Data Base
RDB➣Routing Data Base
RDB➣Ramped Dump Barge (US Navy)
RDB➣Regional Defense Bureau (Ministry of Defense; Japan)
RDB➣Repeat Data Base
RDB➣Red Design Bureau
RDB➣Ruhunu Development Bank (Sri Lanka)
RDB➣Radiological Dispersion Bomb