A dynamic page

 is a web page customized by an application server before 

the page is sent to a browser. For more information, see 

 How a web 

application works  on page 219

. 

A recordset

 is a set of data extracted from one or more tables in a database, 

as in the following example: 

Number

LastName FirstName

Position

Goals

Database table

LastName FirstName

Position

Recordset table

A relational database

 is a database containing more than one table, with 

the tables sharing data. The following database is relational because two 

tables share the DepartmentID column. 

A server technology 

is the technology that an application server uses to 

modify dynamic pages at runtime. 

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