J

Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS)

An encoding scheme for processing Japanese characters.

JAR

Java Archive.

Java Archive (JAR)

A file format that aggregates many files into a single file.

JCL

Job control language.

JDBC

A Sun Microsystems database application programming interface (API) for Java that allows programs to access database management systems by using callable SQL. JDBC does not require the use of an SQL preprocessor. In addition, JDBC provides an architecture that lets users add modules called database drivers, which link the application to the user's choice of database management systems at run time.

JIS

Japanese Industrial Standard.

job control language (JCL)

A control language that identifies a job to an operating system and describes the job's requirements.

join

A relational operation that allows retrieval of data from two or more tables according to matching column values.

See also [equijoin]

See also [full outer join]

See also [inner join]

See also [left outer join]

See also [outer join]

See also [right outer join]