WAL
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Translingual
Symbol
WAL
- (international standards) Indeterminately reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Sierra Leone.
- Synonym: SLE (for general use)
Usage notes
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.
English
Proper noun
WAL
- (sports) Abbreviation of Wales.
Noun
WAL (uncountable)
- (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.