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Oracle® Database Online Documentation Library Master Glossary: A
11g Release 2 (11.2)

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Glossary Definitions

ABAP script (Warehouse Builder Concepts) 

accent (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

accent-insensitive linguistic sort (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

access control list (ACL) (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Net Services Reference) 

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

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

access driver (Database Concepts) 

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

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

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

action context (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

action script (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 

action (Database Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 

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

active learning (Data Mining Concepts) 

active transaction (Database Concepts) 

active version (Database Workspace Manager Developer's Guide) 

activity (Warehouse Builder Concepts) 

actual data (Database Advanced Security Administrator's Guide) 

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

ADDM (Database Concepts) 

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

administrator managed (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 

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

ADP (Data Mining Concepts) 

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

ADT (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 

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

advisor (Database Data Warehousing Guide) 

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

affinity (Database Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 

aggregate (Database Data Warehousing Guide) 

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

aging (TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide) 

AL16UTF16 (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

AL32UTF8 (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

alert log (Database Platform Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Concepts) 

algorithm settings (Data Mining Concepts) 

algorithm (Data Mining Concepts) 

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

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

alternate spelling (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

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

ancestor incarnation (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

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

anomaly detection (Data Mining Concepts) 

anonymity document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

antijoin (Database Concepts) 

ANYDATA queue (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

API (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 

application architecture (Database Concepts) 

application conformance (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

application context (Database Security Guide) 

application domain index (Database Concepts) 

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

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

application role (Database Security Guide) 

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

application (Database Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 

applied SCN (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

apply forwarding (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

apply handler (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

apply instance (Data Guard Broker) 

apply pattern (Database Semantic Technologies Developer's Guide) 

apply process (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

apply servers (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

apply user (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

apply (Data Mining Concepts) 

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 (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

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

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

archived redo log file (Database Concepts) 

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

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

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

archiving (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

area (Spatial Developer's Guide) 

ascending index (Database Concepts) 

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

ASCII (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

ASMLib (Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide) 

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

association rules (Data Mining Concepts) 

association (Data Mining Concepts) 

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

asynchronous writethrough (AWT) cache group (TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide) 

asynchronous (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 

atomically null object (Database 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) 

attribute data (Spatial Developer's Guide) 

attribute importance (Data Mining Concepts) 

attribute section (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

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

audio data (Multimedia User's Guide) 

authenticate (Database Platform Guide) 

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

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

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

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

AUTO_SECTION_GROUP (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

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

Automatic Data Transformation (Data Mining Concepts) 

Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) (Database Concepts) 

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

automatic diagnostic repository (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 

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

automatic refresh (TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide) 

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

automatic undo management mode (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #4] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #5] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #6] (Database Installation Guide) 

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

Automatic Workload Repository (Database Performance Tuning Guide) 

autorefresh cache group (TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide) 

Autotrace (Database Performance Tuning Guide) 

auxiliary channel (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

auxiliary database (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

auxiliary destination (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

auxiliary instance (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

auxiliary set (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

availability directive (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 

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

AWR (Database Concepts)