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Oracle Database Master Glossary: A
11g Release 2 (11.2)

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Glossary Definitions

ABAP script (Warehouse Builder Concepts)

accent (Globalization Support Guide)

accent-insensitive linguistic sort (Globalization Support Guide)

access control (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Net Services Reference)

access control entry (ACE) (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

access control list (ACL) (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)
    [definition #3] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

Access Control Lists (ACLs) (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

access path (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Performance Tuning Guide)

ACE (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

ACID transaction semantics (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

ACL (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)
    [definition #3] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

action (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)

action context (Streams Concepts and Administration)

action script (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide)

active database duplication (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

active learning (Data Mining Concepts)

active transaction (Concepts)

active version (Workspace Manager Developer's Guide)

activity (Warehouse Builder Concepts)

additive (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #2] (OLAP User's Guide)

ADDM (Concepts)

address (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

administrator managed (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide)

administrator-managed database (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide)
    [definition #2] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

ADP (Data Mining Concepts)

ADR (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Net Services Reference)

ADT (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide)

Advanced Encryption Standard (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

advisor (Data Warehousing Guide)

AES (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

affinity (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)

aggregate (Data Warehousing Guide)

aggregation (Data Mining Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #3] (OLAP User's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)

aging (In-Memory Database Cache User's Guide)

AL16UTF16 (Globalization Support Guide)

AL32UTF8 (Globalization Support Guide)

alert log (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)

algorithm (Data Mining Concepts)

algorithm settings (Data Mining Concepts)

alias (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

all node patching (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide)

alternate spelling (Text Application Developer's Guide)

analytic workspace (OLAP User's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Warehouse Builder Concepts)

ancestor (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #2] (OLAP User's Guide)

ancestor incarnation (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

anomaly detection (Data Mining Concepts)

anonymity document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

ANYDATA queue (Streams Concepts and Administration)

API (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide)

application (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)

application conformance (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

application context (Security Guide)

application gateway (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

application programming interface (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide)

application role (Security Guide)

application server (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

applied SCN (Streams Concepts and Administration)

apply (Data Mining Concepts)

apply forwarding (Streams Concepts and Administration)

apply handler (Streams Concepts and Administration)

apply instance (Data Guard Broker)

apply pattern (Semantic Technologies Developer's Guide)

apply process (Streams Concepts and Administration)

apply servers (Streams Concepts and Administration)

apply user (Streams Concepts and Administration)

approximate commit system change number (approximate CSCN) (Streams Concepts and Administration)

approximate CSCN (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide)

Apriori (Data Mining Concepts)

archival backup (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

archived redo log (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

archived redo log deletion policy (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

archived redo log failover (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

archived redo log file (Concepts)

archived-log downstream capture process (Streams Concepts and Administration)

ARCHIVELOG mode (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

archiving (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

area (Spatial Developer's Guide)

ASCII (Globalization Support Guide)

ASCII character set (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

ASMLib (Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide)

assembly (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Extensions for .NET Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows)

association (Data Mining Concepts)

association rules (Data Mining Concepts)

asynchronous (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide)

asynchronous I/O (Performance Tuning Guide)
    [definition #2] (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

asynchronous writethrough (AWT) cache group (In-Memory Database Cache User's Guide)

atomically null object (Object-Relational Developer's Guide)

atomicity (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (ACID) (Services for Microsoft Transaction Server Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows)

attribute (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Data Mining Concepts)
    [definition #3] (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #4] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #5] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #6] (Net Services Reference)
    [definition #7] (OLAP User's Guide)
    [definition #8] (Spatial Developer's Guide)
    [definition #9] (Text Application Developer's Guide)
    [definition #10] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

attribute data (Spatial Developer's Guide)

attribute importance (Data Mining Concepts)

attribute section (Text Application Developer's Guide)

audio data (Multimedia User's Guide)

authenticate (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)

authentication (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

authentication method (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Net Services Reference)

authorization (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)

auto login wallet (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

automatic channel allocation (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

Automatic Data Transformation (Data Mining Concepts)

Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) (Concepts)

automatic diagnostic repository (Net Services Administrator's Guide)

Automatic Diagnostic Repository (ADR) (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Net Services Reference)

Automatic Provisioning (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)

automatic refresh (In-Memory Database Cache User's Guide)

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

automatic undo management mode (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Database Installation Guide for HP-UX)
    [definition #4] (Database Installation Guide for IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit))
    [definition #5] (Database Installation Guide for Linux)
    [definition #6] (Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #7] (Database Installation Guide for Oracle Solaris)

Automatic Workload Repository (Performance Tuning Guide)

Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide)
    [definition #3] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

autorefresh cache group (In-Memory Database Cache User's Guide)

Autotrace (Performance Tuning Guide)

AUTO_SECTION_GROUP (Text Application Developer's Guide)

auxiliary channel (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

auxiliary database (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

auxiliary destination (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

auxiliary instance (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

auxiliary set (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

availability directive (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide)

average response time (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)

AWR (Concepts)