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Glossary of Terms related to O/R Mapping Tools for .NET
- POCO
- Acronym for "Plain old CLR Objects" meaning the O/R Mapper can return custom business objects to the calling code.
- CRUD
- Acronym for "Create, Read, Update, Delete" which describes the four types of actions that can be taken when interacting with database management system.
- LGPL License
- Limited GNU Public License (LGPL). This means that you are allowed to use the code/software in commercial applications for free, however modifications of the library itself must remain free software.
- OQL
- Acronym for Object Query Language. OQL is an object-based version of SQL designed specifically around the need to specify criteria for objects.
- Two-way Data Binding
- Two-way data binding is a term used to describe the ability to bind to the members and/or fields of an object, as well as columns of a table/dataset.