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

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

cache administration user (TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide) 

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

cache coherency (Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide) 

Cache Fusion (Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide) 

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

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

cache group (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 
    [definition #2] (TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide) 

cache instance (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 
    [definition #2] (TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide) 

cache manager user (TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide) 

cache recovery (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Database Performance Tuning Guide) 

cache table users (TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide) 

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

cache (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Performance Tuning Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Net Services Reference) 

calculated measure (OLAP User's Guide) 

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

canonical equivalence (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

canonical (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 

capacity planning (Database Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 

capture database (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

capture process (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

capture user (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

captured LCR (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

captured SCN (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

cardinality (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #3] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide) 
    [definition #4] (Database Data Warehousing Guide) 

Cartesian coordinate system (Spatial Developer's Guide) 

Cartesian product (Database Performance Tuning Guide) 

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

Cascading Style Sheets (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide) 

case conversion (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

case table (Data Mining Concepts) 

case (Data Mining Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Database Globalization Support Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

case-insensitive linguistic sort (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

categorical attribute (Data Mining Concepts) 

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

CDS (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 

Cell Directory Services (CDS) (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 

cell (OLAP User's Guide) 

centroid (Data Mining Concepts) 

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

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

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

certificate revocation list (CRL) (Database Security Guide) 

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

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

change cycling (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

change handler (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

change set (Database Data Warehousing Guide) 

change table (Database Data Warehousing Guide) 

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

channel (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

character classification (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

character code (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

character data (CDATA) (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide) 

character encoding scheme (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

character encoding (Database Concepts) 

character large object (CLOB) (Database Object-Relational Developer's Guide) 

Character Large Object (CLOB) (Database SecureFiles and Large Objects Developer's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Objects for OLE Developer's Guide) 

character large object (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 

character repertoire (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

character semantics (Database Globalization Support Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Concepts) 

character set migration (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

character set (Database Globalization Support Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Concepts) 

character string (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

character (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

checkpoint interval (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

checkpoint retention time (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

checkpoint (Streams Concepts and Administration) 
    [definition #2] (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #3] (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

checksum (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

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

child element (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide) 

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

child workspace (Database Workspace Manager Developer's Guide) 

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

CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) (Database Net Services Reference) 

CIDR (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Security Guide) 

Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Advanced Security Administrator's Guide) 

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

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

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

circular reuse records (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

class generator (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide) 

classification (Text Application Developer's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Data Mining Concepts) 

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

Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 

Classless Inter-Domain Routing (Database Security Guide) 

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

cleansing (Database Data Warehousing Guide) 

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

client character set (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

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

client load balancing (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Net Services Reference) 

client process (Database Concepts) 

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

client (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #4] (Database Net Services Reference) 
    [definition #5] (Database Advanced Security Administrator's Guide) 

client/server architecture (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Net Services Reference) 

client/server (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 

clipping (Data Mining Concepts) 

clique (Database Semantic Technologies Developer's Guide) 

CLOB (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database SecureFiles and Large Objects Developer's Guide) 

closed backup (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

closed workload (Database Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 

cluster centroid (Data Mining Concepts) 

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

Cluster File System (CFS) (Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide) 

cluster file system (Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Concepts) 

cluster index (Database Concepts) 

cluster key (Database Concepts) 

Cluster Ready Services Daemon (CRSD) (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide) 

cluster resource (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 

Cluster Synchronization Services (CSS) (Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 

Cluster Time Synchronization Service (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide) 

Cluster Verification Utility (CVU) (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 

cluster (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide) 

cluster-aware (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 

clustering (Text Application Developer's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Data Mining Concepts) 

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

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

CMADMIN (Connection Manager Administration) (Database Net Services Reference) 

CMADMIN (Oracle Connection Manager Administration) (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 

cman.ora file (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Net Services Reference) 

CMGW (Connection Manager gateway) (Database Net Services Reference) 

CMGW (Oracle Connection Manager gateway) (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 

code point (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

Code Template (CT) (Warehouse Builder Concepts) 

Code Template mapping (Warehouse Builder Concepts) 

code unit (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

codecs (Multimedia User's Guide) 

cold backup (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

collation (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

colocation (Spatial Developer's Guide) 

column list (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

column object (Database Object-Relational Developer's Guide) 

column (Database Concepts) 

COM (Database Platform Guide) 

command file (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

commit (Database Concepts) 

commit-time queue (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

Common Language Runtime (Database Extensions for .NET Developer's Guide) 

Common Object Request Broker API (CORBA) (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide) 

Common Oracle Runtime Environment (CORE) (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide) 

Common Warehouse Metadata (CWM) (Database Data Warehousing Guide) 

complete recovery (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

Component Object Model (COM) (COM Automation Feature Developer's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Provider for OLE DB Developer's Guide) 

component object model (COM) (Services for Microsoft Transaction Server Developer's Guide) 

component-based shadow copies (Database Platform Guide) 

composite domain index (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

composite index (Database Concepts) 

composite partitioning (Database Concepts) 

composite (OLAP User's Guide) 

compound query (Database Performance Tuning Guide) 

compressed cube (OLAP User's Guide) 

compression unit (Database Concepts) 

compression (OLAP User's Guide) 

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

concurrency (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 

condition (Database Concepts) 

conditional log group (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

conditioned data (Database Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 

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

configuration document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

configuration object (Data Guard Broker) 

conflict resolution (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

conflict (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

conflicts (Database Workspace Manager Developer's Guide) 

conformance validation (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

confusion matrix (Data Mining Concepts) 

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

connect descriptor (Database Client Installation Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Net Services Reference) 
    [definition #4] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #5] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #6] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #7] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #8] (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #9] (Database Advanced Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #10] (Database Platform Guide) 

connect identifier (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Net Services Reference) 
    [definition #3] (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #4] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #5] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #6] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #7] (Database Advanced Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #8] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #9] (Database Platform Guide) 

connect string (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Net Services Reference) 
    [definition #4] (Database Advanced Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #5] (Database Platform Guide) 

connect-time failover (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Net Services Reference) 

connection attribute (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 

connection load balancing (Database Net Services Reference) 
    [definition #2] (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 

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

connection request (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Net Services Reference) 

connection string (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 

connection (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #4] (Database Net Services Reference) 

ConnectionFactory (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 

connector (Warehouse Builder Concepts) 

consistency (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 

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

consistent shutdown (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

consistent solve specification (OLAP User's Guide) 

constraint document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

constraint macro (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

constraint predicate (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

constraint rule (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

consumer (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Provider for OLE DB Developer's Guide) 

consumption (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

contain (Spatial Developer's Guide) 

content metadata (Multimedia User's Guide) 

contention (Database Performance Tuning Guide) 

CONTEXT index (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

context (Database Workspace Manager Developer's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Concepts) 

Control Center Agent (CCA) (Warehouse Builder Concepts) 

Control Center Manager (Warehouse Builder Concepts) 

Control Center Service (Warehouse Builder Concepts) 

control file autobackup (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

control file (Database Concepts) 

control files (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #4] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #5] (Database Platform Guide) 

control row (Warehouse Builder Concepts) 

convert script (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

convex hull (Spatial Developer's Guide) 

coordinate reference system (Spatial Developer's Guide) 

coordinate system (Spatial Developer's Guide) 

coordinate (Spatial Developer's Guide) 

coordinated universal time (UTC) (Objects for OLE Developer's Guide) 

coordinator process (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

copy (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

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

corrupt block (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

cost matrix (Data Mining Concepts) 

cost of downtime (Database High Availability Overview) 

counterexample (Data Mining Concepts) 

cover (Spatial Developer's Guide) 

crash recovery (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

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

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

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

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

cross product (Database Data Warehousing Guide) 

crosscheck (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

CRS Administrator (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 

CRSD (Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 

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

CSS Cluster (Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide) 

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

CT mapping (Warehouse Builder Concepts) 

CTXAPP role (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

CTXCAT index (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

CTXRULE index (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

CTXSYS user (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

CTXXPATH index (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

cube dimension (OLAP User's Guide) 

cube materialized view (OLAP User's Guide) 

cube script (OLAP User's Guide) 

cube view (OLAP User's Guide) 

cube (Warehouse Builder Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #3] (OLAP User's Guide) 

cumulative incremental backup (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

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

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

current version (Database Workspace Manager Developer's Guide) 

cursor (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 

custom apply (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

custom measure (OLAP User's Guide) 

custom member (OLAP User's Guide) 

custom rule-based transformation (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

Cytoscape (Database Semantic Technologies Developer's Guide)