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Takehisa Tanaka Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

What is "to database"?

This is from a tutorial page for a programming language:
"Direct call can also be made from external programming language calls to database."
I'm wondering what is "to database."
I think it is "direct call to database."
Am I right?
Could you tell me, please?

  

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" This is missing its articles; perhaps it is intentionally written in an abbreviated headlinese style. On top of that, it is also rather garbled and badly written. " Does this make more sense to you?

  • " This is missing its articles; perhaps it is intentionally written in an abbreviated headlinese style.
  • On top of that, it is also rather garbled and badly written.
  • " Does this make more sense to you?
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Takehisa Tanaka"Direct call can also be made from external programming language calls to database."

This is missing its articles; perhaps it is intentionally written in an abbreviated headlinese style. On top of that, it is also rather garbled and badly written. I believe that this is what they are trying to say:

"Direct calls to the database can also

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