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Oracle® Objects for OLE Developer's Guide
11g Release 2 (11.2) for Microsoft Windows

Part Number E17727-03
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OOFOL884

Glossary

OOFOL885

BFILEs

External binary files that exist outside the database tablespaces residing in the operating system. BFILEs are referenced from the database semantics, and are also known as external LOBs.

OOFOL886

Binary Large Object (BLOB)

A large object data type whose content consists of binary data. Additionally, this data is considered raw as its structure is not recognized by the database.

OOFOL887

Character Large Object (CLOB)

The LOB data type whose value is composed of character data corresponding to the database character set. A CLOB may be indexed and searched by the Oracle Text search engine.

OOFOL888

coordinated universal time (UTC)

UTC was formerly known as Greenwich Mean Time.

OOFOL889

Large Object (LOB)

The class of SQL data type that is further divided into internal LOBs and external LOBs. Internal LOBs include BLOBs, CLOBs, and NCLOBs while external LOBs include BFILEs.

OOFOL890

National Character Large Object (NCLOB)

The LOB data type whose value is composed of character data corresponding to the database national character set.

OOFOL891

PL/SQL

Oracle procedural language extension to SQL.

OOFOL892

primary key

The column or set of columns included in the definition of a table's PRIMARY KEY constraint.

OOFOL893

UTC

UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) was formerly known as Greenwich Mean Time.

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