Word Origin & History. limb O.E. lim limb, joint, main branch of a tree, from P.Gmc. *limu- (cf. O.N. limr limb, lim small branch of a tree), a variant of *liÃ¾u- (cf. O.E. liÃ¾, O.Fris. lith, O.N. liÃ°r, Goth. liÃ¾us a limb; with prefix ga-, source of Ger. glied limb, member), from PIE base *lei- to bend, be movable, be nimble.. The parasitic -b began to appear late 1500s for no reason.
Operations management (OM) is the business function responsible for managing the process of creation of goods and services. It involves planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling all the resources needed to produce a companyâs goods and services.
A sequence object is usually used to generate unique identifiers for rows of a table. The sequence functions, listed in Table 9-34, provide simple, multiuser-safe methods for obtaining successive sequence values from sequence objects. Table 9-34. Sequence Functions. The sequence to be operated on by a sequence-function call is specified by a regclass argument, which is just the OID of the sequence in the pg_class system catalog. You do not have to look up the OID by hand, however, since the regclass data type's input converter will do the work for you.