Glossary: Letter S

ScreamTracker 3 Module: a tracker music format supporting 16-bit samples, up to 32 channels, and stereo panning.

SAS Dataset: the native data format for SAS (Statistical Analysis System), widely used in pharmaceutical, healthcare, and government data analysis.

Windows Screensaver: an executable file displayed as an animated screensaver when the computer is idle. Uses the same PE format as .exe files.

Sassy CSS: the more commonly used syntax of the Sass CSS preprocessor. SCSS extends CSS with variables, nesting, mixins, inheritance, and functions while maintaining full CSS compatibility. Files use...

Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets: a CSS preprocessor that adds variables, nesting, mixins, inheritance, and functions. SCSS uses CSS-like syntax (.scss); Sass uses indented syntax (.sass).

Search Engine Optimization: the practice of improving a website's visibility in organic search engine results through techniques like keyword research, content optimization, meta tags, link building,...

Security Information and Event Management: a solution that aggregates and analyzes log data from across an organization's IT infrastructure to detect security threats, generate alerts, and support inc...

The native file format for Trimble SketchUp, a 3D modeling tool popular in architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture.

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol: the standard protocol for sending email messages between servers. SMTP handles the routing and delivery of outgoing mail and is typically used alongside POP3 or IMAP for...

Simple Network Management Protocol: a protocol for collecting and organizing information about managed devices on IP networks and for modifying that information to change device behavior. SNMP is wide...

Shared Object: the equivalent of DLL on Unix/Linux systems. It is a shared library loaded at runtime for code reuse across programs.

Security Operations Center: a centralized facility staffed by security analysts who continuously monitor, detect, analyze, and respond to cybersecurity incidents using a combination of technology solu...

Super NES SPC700 sound file: contains audio data ripped from Super Nintendo games, playable by specialized emulator-based audio players.

Standard Portable Intermediate Representation for Vulkan: a binary intermediate language for GPU shaders used by Vulkan, OpenCL, and WebGPU.

The Swift Package Manager manifest file defining targets, dependencies, and products for Swift library and application packages.

SPSS Data File: the native format for IBM SPSS Statistics, used in social science, market research, and survey data analysis.

Structured Query Language: a standard programming language for managing and manipulating relational databases. SQL enables querying, inserting, updating, and deleting data, as well as creating and mod...

A code injection technique that exploits security vulnerabilities in an application's database layer by inserting malicious SQL statements into input fields, allowing attackers to read, modify, or del...

A self-contained, serverless, file-based relational database engine. SQLite requires no configuration or server process and stores the entire database in a single file, making it ideal for embedded sy...

SubRip Subtitle: the simplest and most widely used subtitle file format with sequentially numbered blocks, timestamps, and plain text.