Advantages and Disadvantages of using relational databases

Advantages:
1. Ease of use: The revision of any information as tables consisting of rows and columns is much easier to understand .

2. Flexibility: Different tables from which information has to be linked and extracted can be easily manipulated by operators such as project and join to give information in the form in which it is desired.

Acronyms used digitally starting with X

XGA - Extended Graphics Array
XFX - XFX Graphics, a Division of Pine
XP - Extreme Programming
XMS - Extended Memory Specification
XT - Extended Technology

Acronyms used digitally starting with W

WAN - Wide Area Network
WLAN= Wireless Local Area Network
WTB - Want to Buy
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get

Acronyms used digitally starting with V

VCD - Video CD
VPN - Virtual Private Network

Acronyms used digitally starting with U

UART - Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
UPS - Uninterruptible power supply
USB - Universal Serial Bus
UTP - Unshieled Twisted Pair

Acronyms used digitally starting with T

TB - Terabytes
TBps - Terabytes per second
Tbps - Terabits per second
TDK - TDK Electronics
TEC - Thermoelectric Cooler
TPC - TipidPC
TWAIN - Technology Without An Important Name

Acronyms used digitally starting with S

SASID - Self-scanned Amorphous Silicon Integrated Display
SCA - SCSI Configured Automatically
SCSI - Small Computer System Interface
SDRAM - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SECC - Single Edge Contact Connector
SODIMM - Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Module
SPARC - Scalable Processor ArChitecture
SOHO - Small Office Home Office
SRAM - Static Random Access Memory
SSE - Streaming SIMD Extensions
SVGA - Super Video Graphics Array
S/PDIF - Sony/Philips Digital Interface

Acronyms used digitally starting with P

PC - Personal Computer
PCB - Printed Circuit Board
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
PCMCIA - Peripheral Component Microchannel Interconnect Architecture
PGA - Professional Graphics Array
PLD - Programmable Logic Device
PM - Private Message / Private Messaging
PnP - Plug 'n Play
PNY - PNY Technology
POST - Power On Self Test
PPPoA - Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
PPPoE - Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
PQI - PQI Corporation
PSU - Power Supply Unit

Acronyms used digitally starting with R

RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAM - Random Access Memory
RAMDAC - Random Access Memory Digital Analog Convertor
RDRAM - Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
ROM - Read Only Memory
RPM - Revolutions Per Minute

Acronyms used digitally starting with O

OC - Overclock (Over Clock)
OCZ - OCZ Technology
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer

Acronyms used digitally starting with N

NAS - Network Attached Storage
NAT - Network Address Translation
NEC - NEC Corporation
NIC - Network Interface Card

Acronyms used digitally starting with M

MAC - Media Access Control
MB -  MotherBoard or Megabyte
MBps - Megabytes Per Second
Mbps - Megabits Per Second or Megabits Per Second
MHz - MegaHertz
MIPS - Million Instructions Per Second
MMX - Multi-Media Extensions
MSI - Micro Star International

Acronyms used digitally starting with L

LG - LG Electronics
LAN - Local Area Network
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
LDT - Lightning Data Transport
LED - Light Emitting Diode

Acronyms used digitally starting with J

JBL - JBL (Jame B. Lansing) Speakers
JVC - JVC Company of America

Acronyms used digitally starting with K

Kbps - Kilobits Per Second
KBps - KiloBytes per second

Acronyms used digitally starting with I

IBM - International Business Machines Corporation
IC - Integrated Circuit
IDE - Integrated Drive Electronics
IFS- Item for Sale
IRQ - Interrupt Request
ISA - Industry Standard Architecture
ISO - International Standards Organization

Acronyms used digitally starting with H

HDD - Hard Disk Drive
HIS - Hightech Information System Limited
HP - Hewlett-Packard Development Company
HSF - Heatsink-Fan

Acronyms used digitally starting with G

GB - Gigabytes
GBps - Gigabytes per second or Gigabits per second
GDI - Graphical Device Interface
GHz - GigaHertz

Acronyms used digitally starting with F

FC-PGA - Flip Chip Pin Grid Array
FDC - Floppy Disk Controller
FDD - Floppy Disk Drive
FPS - Frame Per Second
FPU - Floating Point Unit
FSAA - Full Screen Anti-Aliasing
FS - For Sale
FSB - Front Side Bus

Acronyms used digitally starting with C

CAS - Column Address Signal
CAD - Compter Aided Design
CASE - Computer Aided Software Engineering
CD - Compact Disk
CDR - Compact Disk Recorder
CDRW - Compact Disk Re-Writer
CD-ROM - Compact Disk - Read Only Memory
CFM - Cubic Feet per Minute (ft3/min)
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CPU - Central Processing Unit
CTX - CTX Technology Corporation (Commited to Excellence)

Acronyms used digitally starting with B

BFG - BFG Technologies
BIOS - Basic Input Output System
BNC - Barrel Nut Connector

Acronyms used digitally starting with A

ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port
ALI - Acer Labs, Incorporated
ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit
AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
APC - American Power Conversion
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASP - Active Server Pages, Application Service Provider
ASPI - Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
AT - Advanced Technology
ATI - ATI Technologies Inc.
ATX - Advanced Technology Extended