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

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Glossary Definitions

MAA environment (High Availability Best Practices)
    [definition #2] (High Availability Overview)

maintenance window (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)

man-in-the-middle (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

manageability goal (High Availability Overview)

mandatory auditing (Security Guide)

manifest document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

manual failover (Data Guard Broker)

manual undo management mode (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Database Installation Guide for HP-UX)
    [definition #3] (Database Installation Guide for IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit))
    [definition #4] (Database Installation Guide for Linux)
    [definition #5] (Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #6] (Database Installation Guide for Oracle Solaris)

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

mapped attribute (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

mapping (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #2] (OLAP User's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Warehouse Builder Concepts)

mapping document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

mapping operator (Warehouse Builder Concepts)

markup (Text Application Developer's Guide)

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

Master Boot Record (MBR) (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide)
    [definition #2] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

master site (Concepts)

master table (Concepts)

master-detail tables (Concepts)

match bin set (Warehouse Builder Concepts)

match pattern (Semantic Technologies Developer's Guide)

materialized view (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #3] (Object-Relational Developer's Guide)
    [definition #4] (OLAP User's Guide)

maximum checkpoint SCN (Streams Concepts and Administration)

MD5 (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

MDATA (Text Application Developer's Guide)

MDATA section (Text Application Developer's Guide)

MDL (Data Mining Concepts)

mean time to recover (MTTR) (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

measure (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #2] (OLAP User's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Spatial Developer's Guide)

measure folder (OLAP User's Guide)

measure range (Spatial Developer's Guide)

media data (Multimedia User's Guide)

media failure (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

media management catalog (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

media management library (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

media manager (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

media manager multiplexing (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

media recovery (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

memory pressure (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)

merging (a workspace) (Workspace Manager Developer's Guide)

message (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Streams Concepts and Administration)

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

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

message handler (Streams Concepts and Administration)

message rule (Streams Concepts and Administration)

messaging application programming interface (MAPI) (COM Automation Feature Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows)

messaging client (Streams Concepts and Administration)

metadata (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #2] (Multimedia User's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Text Application Developer's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Warehouse Builder Concepts)

metadata encoding (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

metadata extraction (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

metadata schema (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

methods (Multimedia User's Guide)

metric (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

Microsoft .NET (Services for Microsoft Transaction Server Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows)

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

Microsoft Active Directory (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

Microsoft application demo (Services for Microsoft Transaction Server Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows)

Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) (Services for Microsoft Transaction Server Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows)

Microsoft Management Console (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)

Microsoft Transaction Server (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #2] (Services for Microsoft Transaction Server Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows)

Microsoft Windows NT native authentication (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

migrate (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)

min-max normalization (Data Mining Concepts)

minimum bounding rectangle (MBR) (Spatial Developer's Guide)

Minimum Description Length (Data Mining Concepts)

minimum downtime patching (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide)

mining function (Data Mining Concepts)

mining model (Data Mining Concepts)

mining object (Data Mining Concepts)

mining result (Data Mining Concepts)

mirroring (Performance Tuning Guide)
    [definition #2] (Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

missing value (Data Mining Concepts)

mixed query (Text Application Developer's Guide)

model (Data Mining Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #3] (OLAP User's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Semantic Technologies Developer's Guide)

module (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Warehouse Builder Concepts)

monolingual linguistic sort (Globalization Support Guide)

monolingual support (Globalization Support Guide)

mount (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)

mounted database (Concepts)

MTBF (Performance Tuning Guide)

MTS (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)

mtssys (Services for Microsoft Transaction Server Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows)

MTTR (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

multi-record case (Data Mining Concepts)

multibyte (Globalization Support Guide)

multibyte character (Globalization Support Guide)

multibyte character string (Globalization Support Guide)

multicast (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide)

multicast Domain Name Server (mDNS) (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide)

multidimensional data (Spatial Developer's Guide)

multilevel collection type (Object-Relational Developer's Guide)

multiline string (Spatial Developer's Guide)

multilingual linguistic sort (Globalization Support Guide)

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

multiple Oracle homes (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)

multiplexed backup set (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

multiplexing (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

multipolygon (Spatial Developer's Guide)

multisection backup (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

multiset operators (Object-Relational Developer's Guide)

multithreading (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)