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

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Safe Type Mapping (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide)

salt (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Security Guide)

sample (Data Mining Concepts)

savepoint (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Workspace Manager Developer's Guide)

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

SBT (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

scalability (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide)
    [definition #2] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)
    [definition #3] (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

scalar attribute (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

scale (Spatial Developer's Guide)

scale normalization (Data Mining Concepts)

SCAN (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide)

schema (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Data Mining Concepts)
    [definition #4] (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #5] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #6] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #7] (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide)
    [definition #8] (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)
    [definition #9] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

schema evolution (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

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

schema object (Concepts)

schema rule (Streams Concepts and Administration)

schema validation (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

SCN (Concepts)

score (Data Mining Concepts)

script (Globalization Support Guide)

SDATA section (Text Application Developer's Guide)

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

secondary filter (Spatial Developer's Guide)

section (Text Application Developer's Guide)

section group (Text Application Developer's Guide)

secure application role (Security Guide)

Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

secure queue (Streams Concepts and Administration)

Secure Shell (SSH) (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide)
    [definition #2] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [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)
    [definition #7] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #8] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #9] (Net Services Reference)
    [definition #10] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

SECUREFILE (SecureFiles and Large Objects Developer's Guide)

security role (OLAP User's Guide)

segment (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Performance Tuning Guide)

selectivity (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Performance Tuning Guide)

semantic index (Semantic Technologies Developer's Guide)

semi-additive (Data Warehousing Guide)

send (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide)

separation of duty (Security Guide)

sequence (Concepts)

server (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)
    [definition #5] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

Server Control (SRVCTL) Utility (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide)

Server Control Utility (SRVCTL) (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

server data source name (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

server DSN (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

server group (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

server parameter file (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)

server pool (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide)
    [definition #2] (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide)

server pool directive overrides (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)

server pool importance (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)

server pool maximum (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)

server pool minimum (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)

server pools (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)

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

Server-Side Include (SSI) (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

service (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)
    [definition #5] (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)

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

service key table (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)

service level (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

service name (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)
    [definition #5] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)

service object pair (SOP) (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

service placement (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)

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

service registration (Database Client Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [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)
    [definition #7] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #8] (Net Services Reference)

service table (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

service ticket (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Security Guide)

services (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide)
    [definition #2] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #3] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

servlet (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide)
    [definition #2] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

Sesame Adapter for Oracle Database (Semantic Technologies Developer's Guide)

session (Concepts)

session context (Workspace Manager Developer's Guide)

session data unit (SDU) (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

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

session layer (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)

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

settings (Data Mining Concepts)

SGA (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Performance Tuning Guide)
    [definition #3] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #4] (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide)

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

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

shadow copy (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)

shadow copy set (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)

shape points (Spatial Developer's Guide)

shared everything (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide)
    [definition #2] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

shared locking (Workspace Manager Developer's Guide)

shared pool (Concepts)

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

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

Shared Server Process (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)

shared server process (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

shared SQL area (Concepts)

shorthand name (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

SID (Database Client Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [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)
    [definition #7] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #8] (Net Services Reference)
    [definition #9] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)

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

Simple API for XML (SAX) (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) (Semantic Technologies Developer's Guide)

Simple Object Access Protocol (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide)

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

simple query (Performance Tuning Guide)

simple statement (Performance Tuning Guide)

single byte (Globalization Support Guide)

Single Client Access Name (SCAN) (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide)

single client access name (SCAN) (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

single key-pair wallet (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

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

single sign-on (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

single sign-on (SSO) (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

single-byte character (Globalization Support Guide)

single-byte character string (Globalization Support Guide)

single-record case (Data Mining Concepts)

singleton services (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide)
    [definition #2] (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

site failure (High Availability Best Practices)
    [definition #2] (High Availability Overview)

skewed data (Performance Tuning Guide)

skip-level hierarchy (OLAP User's Guide)

skipjoin (Text Application Developer's Guide)

slice and dice (Data Warehousing Guide)

Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) (Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide)

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

SMP (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

snap-ins (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)

snapshot (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)

snapshot control file (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

snapshot standby database (Data Guard Broker)
    [definition #2] (High Availability Best Practices)

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

SNMP (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

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

SOAP (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide)
    [definition #2] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

soft parse (Concepts)

solve specification (OLAP User's Guide)

solved data (OLAP User's Guide)

SOP class (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

sort (Spatial Developer's Guide)

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

source database (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Streams Concepts and Administration)

source host (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

source platform (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

source queue (Streams Concepts and Administration)

source system (Data Warehousing Guide)

source tables (Data Warehousing Guide)

sparse data (Data Mining Concepts)

sparsity (OLAP User's Guide)

spatial (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial binning (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial correlation (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial data (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial data model (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial data structures (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial database (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial discretization (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial join (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial query (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial reference system (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatiotemporal data (Spatial Developer's Guide)

special section (Text Application Developer's Guide)

specializing (Object-Relational Developer's Guide)

split (Data Mining Concepts)

split brain syndrome (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide)
    [definition #2] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

split mirror backup (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

SQL (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)
    [definition #3] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

SQL Access Advisor (Data Warehousing Guide)

SQL Apply (Data Guard Broker)

SQL CHAR data types (Globalization Support Guide)

SQL Compiler (Performance Tuning Guide)

SQL NCHAR data types (Globalization Support Guide)

SQL profile (Performance Tuning Guide)

SQL statements (identical) (Performance Tuning Guide)

SQL statements (similar) (Performance Tuning Guide)

SQL Trace (Performance Tuning Guide)

SQL tuning set (STS) (Performance Tuning Guide)

SQL*Loader (Performance Tuning Guide)
    [definition #2] (Spatial Developer's Guide)

SQL*Loader control file (Warehouse Builder Concepts)

SQL*Plus (Concepts)

SQL/XML (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

sqlnet.ora file (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Database Client Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [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)
    [definition #8] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #9] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #10] (Net Services Reference)

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

SSL (Database Installation Guide for HP-UX)
    [definition #2] (Database Installation Guide for IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit))
    [definition #3] (Database Installation Guide for Linux)
    [definition #4] (Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #5] (Database Installation Guide for Oracle Solaris)
    [definition #6] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #7] (Net Services Reference)
    [definition #8] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

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

stack overflow condition (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

staging area (Data Warehousing Guide)

staging file (Data Warehousing Guide)

standard attributes (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

standard dictionary document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

standards conformance (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

standby database (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Data Guard Broker)

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

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

start effort evaluation (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide)

start SCN (Streams Concepts and Administration)

starter database (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)

startjoin (Text Application Developer's Guide)

state (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide)

statement DML handler (Streams Concepts and Administration)

statement-level rollback (Concepts)

Statspack (Performance Tuning Guide)

status (OLAP User's Guide)

stemming (Text Application Developer's Guide)

stop section (Text Application Developer's Guide)

stopclass (Text Application Developer's Guide)

stoplist (Text Application Developer's Guide)

stoptheme (Text Application Developer's Guide)

stopword (Text Application Developer's Guide)

Storage Area Network (SAN) (Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide)

storage failure (High Availability Best Practices)
    [definition #2] (High Availability Overview)

stored function (Extensions for .NET Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows)

stored procedure (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Extensions for .NET Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #4] (Object-Relational Developer's Guide)
    [definition #5] (Provider for OLE DB Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #6] (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

stored script (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

stored tag list document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

stratified sample (Data Mining Concepts)

striping (Performance Tuning Guide)
    [definition #2] (Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide)

Structured Generalized Markup Language (SGML) (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

Structured Query Language (SQL) (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

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

sub-lexer (Text Application Developer's Guide)

subject area (Data Warehousing Guide)

subquery (Concepts)

subscriber (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide)

subscribers (Data Warehousing Guide)

subscription (Data Warehousing Guide)

subscription window (Data Warehousing Guide)

subset rule (Streams Concepts and Administration)

substitutability (Object-Relational Developer's Guide)

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

Summary Advisor (Data Warehousing Guide)

supermodel (Data Mining Concepts)

supervised classification (Text Application Developer's Guide)

supervised learning (Data Mining Concepts)

supervised model (Data Mining Concepts)

supplemental log group (Streams Concepts and Administration)

supplemental logging (Streams Concepts and Administration)

supplementary characters (Globalization Support Guide)

Support Vector Machine (Data Mining Concepts)

surrogate pairs (Globalization Support Guide)

SVM (Data Mining Concepts)

syllabary (Globalization Support Guide)

synchronous (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide)

synchronous capture (Streams Concepts and Administration)

synchronous I/O (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

synchronous writethrough (SWT) cache group (In-Memory Database Cache User's Guide)

synonym (Concepts)

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

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

SYSTEM (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #2] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

system (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)

system account (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

system change number (SCN) (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

system DSN (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)
    [definition #2] (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

System Global Area (Database Installation Guide for HP-UX)
    [definition #2] (Database Installation Guide for IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit))
    [definition #3] (Database Installation Guide for Linux)
    [definition #4] (Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #5] (Database Installation Guide for Oracle Solaris)
    [definition #6] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #7] (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide)

System Global Area (SGA) (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)

system global area (SGA) (Concepts)

system identifier (Database Client Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [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)
    [definition #7] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)

system identifier (SID) (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide)
    [definition #2] (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

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

system metric (Quality of Service Management User's Guide)

system-created rule (Streams Concepts and Administration)

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

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