Construction Drawing Abbreviations. The following is a list of abbreviations found on a typical set of construction drawings designed to help you interpret information on your blueprints.
IDMS. IDMS is primarily a network database management system for mainframes. It was first developed at B.F. Goodrich and later marketed by Cullinane Database Systems. Since 1989 the product has been owned by Computer Associates, who renamed it Advantage CA-IDMS and later simply to CA IDMS.
A database management system (DBMS) is a software system that enables users to define, create and maintain the database and which provides controlled access to this database. Database Concepts and Definition of Terms. Table Naming Conventions (cont.) Each cell of the table contains exactly one atomic (single) value. Since each cell should contain only one value, it is illegal to store two year levels for a single student in a single cell (year).