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Oracle Database Master Glossary: C
10g Release 2 (10.2)

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CA (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (HTTP Server Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

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

cache coherency (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

Cache Fusion (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

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

calculated measure (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

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

canonical (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference)

canonical equivalence (Globalization Support Guide)

capture process (Streams Concepts and Administration)

capture user (Streams Concepts and Administration)

captured message (Streams Concepts and Administration)

captured SCN (Streams Concepts and Administration)

cardinality (Data Warehousing Guide)

Cartesian coordinate system (Spatial User's Guide and Reference)

Cartesian product (Performance Tuning Guide)

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

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

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

case conversion (Globalization Support Guide)

case-insensitive linguistic sort (Globalization Support Guide)

catalog (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

categorical attribute (Data Mining Concepts)

category (Data Mining Concepts)

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

CDS (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)

cell (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

Cell Directory Services (CDS) (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)

centroid (Data Mining Concepts)

certificate (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (HTTP Server Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #5] (Security Guide)

certificate authority (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (HTTP Server Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit))
    [definition #5] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows Itanium (64-Bit))
    [definition #6] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows x64 (64-Bit))

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

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

Certificate Revocation List (CRL) (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

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

Certification Authority (CA) (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

CGI (HTTP Server Administrator's Guide)

change cycling (Streams Concepts and Administration)

change set (Data Warehousing Guide)

change table (Data Warehousing Guide)

channel (Backup and Recovery Basics)

character (Globalization Support Guide)

character classification (Globalization Support Guide)

character code (Globalization Support Guide)

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

character encoding scheme (Globalization Support Guide)

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

Character Large Object (CLOB) (Application Developer's Guide - Large Objects)
    [definition #2] (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Oracle Objects for OLE Developer's Guide)

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

character set (Globalization Support Guide)

character set migration (Globalization Support Guide)

character string (Globalization Support Guide)

CHECK constraint (Concepts)

checkpoint (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Backup and Recovery Basics)
    [definition #3] (Streams Concepts and Administration)

checkpoint interval (Streams Concepts and Administration)

checkpoint retention time (Streams Concepts and Administration)

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

child (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #2] (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

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

child workspace (Application Developer's Guide - Workspace Manager)

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

cipher suite (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (HTTP Server Administrator's Guide)

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

ciphertext (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (HTTP Server Administrator's Guide)

circular reuse records (Backup and Recovery Basics)

class (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

Class Generator (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

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

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

cleansing (Data Warehousing Guide)

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

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

client character set (Globalization Support Guide)

client host (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

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

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

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

clipping (Data Mining Concepts)

CLOB (Application Developer's Guide - Large Objects)
    [definition #2] (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference)

closed backup (Backup and Recovery Basics)

cluster (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

cluster cache coherency (Enterprise Manager Concepts)

cluster centroid (Data Mining Concepts)

cluster database (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

cluster file system (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

Cluster Synchronization Services (CSS) (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

Cluster Verification Utility (CVU) (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

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

CMADMIN (Connection Manager Administration) (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

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

CMGW (Connection Manager gateway) (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

code point (Globalization Support Guide)

code unit (Globalization Support Guide)

cold backup (Backup and Recovery Basics)

collation (Globalization Support Guide)

colocation (Spatial User's Guide and Reference)

column (Concepts)

column list (Streams Concepts and Administration)

COM/COM+ (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit))
    [definition #2] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows Itanium (64-Bit))
    [definition #3] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows x64 (64-Bit))

commit (Concepts)

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

Common Language Runtime (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) (Data Warehousing Guide)

complete recovery (Backup and Recovery Basics)

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)

composite (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

compound query (Performance Tuning Guide)

compressed cube (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

compression (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

concurrency (Concepts)

conditional log group (Streams Concepts and Administration)

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

configuration object (Data Guard Broker)

conflict (Streams Concepts and Administration)

conflict resolution (Streams Concepts and Administration)

conflicts (Application Developer's Guide - Workspace Manager)

confusion matrix (Data Mining Concepts)

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

connect descriptor (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Database Client Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #3] (Database Client Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows (x64))
    [definition #4] (Database Client Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows Itanium (64-Bit))
    [definition #5] (Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit))
    [definition #6] (Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows Itanium (64-Bit))
    [definition #7] (Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows x64)
    [definition #8] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #9] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #10] (Net Services Reference)
    [definition #11] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit))
    [definition #12] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows Itanium (64-Bit))
    [definition #13] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows x64 (64-Bit))

connect identifier (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Database Client Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #3] (Database Client Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows (x64))
    [definition #4] (Database Client Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows Itanium (64-Bit))
    [definition #5] (Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit))
    [definition #6] (Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows Itanium (64-Bit))
    [definition #7] (Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows x64)
    [definition #8] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #9] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #10] (Net Services Reference)
    [definition #11] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit))
    [definition #12] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows Itanium (64-Bit))
    [definition #13] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows x64 (64-Bit))

connect string (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 (32-Bit))
    [definition #6] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows Itanium (64-Bit))
    [definition #7] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows x64 (64-Bit))

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

connection (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Data Mining Concepts)
    [definition #3] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Net Services Reference)

connection load balancing (Net Services Reference)

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

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

ConnectionFactory (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference)

consistent backup (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Backup and Recovery Basics)

consistent shutdown (Backup and Recovery Basics)

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

consumption (Streams Concepts and Administration)

contain (Spatial User's Guide and Reference)

content-managed expiration policy (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

contention (Performance Tuning Guide)

context (Application Developer's Guide - Workspace Manager)

CONTEXT index (Text Application Developer's Guide)

control (Enterprise Manager Concepts)

Control File (Enterprise Manager SNMP Support Reference Guide)

control file (Concepts)

control file autobackup (Backup and Recovery Basics)

control files (Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit))
    [definition #2] (Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows Itanium (64-Bit))
    [definition #3] (Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows x64)
    [definition #4] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit))
    [definition #5] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows Itanium (64-Bit))
    [definition #6] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows x64 (64-Bit))

convex hull (Spatial User's Guide and Reference)

coordinate (Spatial User's Guide and Reference)

coordinate reference system (Spatial User's Guide and Reference)

coordinate system (Spatial User's Guide and Reference)

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

coordinator process (Streams Concepts and Administration)

copy (Backup and Recovery Basics)

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

corrupt block (Backup and Recovery Basics)

cost matrix (Data Mining Concepts)

counterexample (Data Mining Concepts)

cover (Spatial User's Guide and Reference)

crash recovery (Backup and Recovery Basics)

crawl (Secure Enterprise Search Administrator's Guide)

crawler (Secure Enterprise Search Administrator's Guide)

credentials (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit))
    [definition #4] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows Itanium (64-Bit))
    [definition #5] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows x64 (64-Bit))

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

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

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

cross product (Data Warehousing Guide)

crosscheck (Backup and Recovery Basics)

CRSD (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

CRSD - Oracle Clusterware Daemon (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

cryptographic hash function (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

cryptography (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (HTTP Server Administrator's Guide)

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

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 (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

cumulative incremental backup (Backup and Recovery Basics)
    [definition #2] (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

current online redo log (Backup and Recovery Basics)

current version (Application Developer's Guide - Workspace Manager)

custom apply (Streams Concepts and Administration)

custom measure (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

custom member (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

custom rule-based transformation (Streams Concepts and Administration)