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Glossary
186 Data Integration with Sybase Avaki Studio
virtual database
The set of all SQL views in an Avaki domain, including those provisioned from external databases and
those generated from data services and database operations. You can execute SQL queries on the
SQL views in the virtual database as if they were tables in a single database.
virtual database operation
A database operation whose source database is the Avaki virtual database itself. Use virtual database
operations if you want to encapsulate and reuse SQL SELECT queries against SQL views (provisioned
or generated).
web services client
See WS client.
WS client
(Also web services client.) A tool or a piece of code that is part of a customer application and that
makes SOAP calls to web services on an Avaki grid server. The SOAP calls can request data from the
Avaki data catalog, from a database operation, or from a data service.