WAL

WAL

1. (international standards) Indeterminately reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Sierra Leone.

   Synonym: SLE (for general use)

This is an indeterminately reserved code, included as part of ISO 3166-1 due to its use in designating road vehicles under the 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, and is not endorsed for general use by the ISO. The general-purpose code for Sierra Leone is SLE.

WAL

1. (sports) Abbreviation of Wales.

WAL (uncountable)

1. (databases) Acronym of write-ahead logging or write-ahead log.
   • 2012, Eric Redmond, Jim Wilson, edited by Jacquelyn Carter, Seven Databases in Seven Weeks‎, Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN:

     In HBase, logs are appended to the WAL before any edit operations (put and increment) are persisted to disk.

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