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I am not a specialist in databases, and I only need to clarify a terminological question that I have.

Assume we have a table containing the field F. F gets its values from the set S, a collection of values of a certain type. (Let's imagine that the elements of S are characters.) Is there a common way to refer to S as a whole? Something like the alphabet of F or the inventory of F.

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  • Do you mean the set of possible (allowed) values, or the set of actually used values (in that particular column of the table)? – Bergi Nov 12 '22 at 23:22

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It's called a domain. And there are no "fields" in tables; there are columns.

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