Toshiba Electric Keyboard User Manual

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with sales data collection.

POS: Point Of Sale, the front end terminal where sales transactions are performed.

Post: Save to the database only. Posting does not Deploy (send).

Relational Database: Any type of database where data is kept in tables, and linked with other tables
by a common key field or combination of key fields.

Risk Level: Associated with customer accounts, a table that contains information about credit limit.
Customers are then assigned a risk level that establishes their credit limit.

SIL: Standard Interchange Language. An extensive industry standard data dictionary and established
numbering system for data fields that relate to the retail business, used to transport information in a
common format. SIL files combine data and the SQL command necessary to export or import data.

SQL: Standard Query Language, an industry standard database language used to manipulate, extract
and store data in relational tables.

Target: Any terminal or group of terminals that must be sent to, or received from. Including: portable
data terminals, back office stations, front end terminals. Targets have a specific naming convention,
explained in the

terminal table programming help page

in this manual.

Task: The actual job or process, usually associated with an event. Command files contain the specific
code for individual tasks.

Terminal: Any system station, front or back end computer or other data device. Normally part of a
target group.

UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN, Code39: Common types of industry standard bar codes used throughout the
retail sales market.

Vendor Code: Vendors or suppliers usually have a proprietary code they use to track items they
wholesale. Often used when ordering or returning items to vendors, linked to a cost.