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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 (Globalization Support Guide) 

accent-insensitive linguistic sort (Globalization Support Guide) 

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

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

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

access driver (Concepts) 

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

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

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

action context (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

action script (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 

action (Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 

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

active learning (Data Mining Concepts) 

active transaction (Concepts) 

active version (Workspace Manager Developer's Guide) 

activity (Warehouse Builder Concepts) 

actual data (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide) 

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

ADDM (Concepts) 

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

administrator managed (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 

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

ADP (Data Mining Concepts) 

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

ADT (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 

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

advisor (Data Warehousing Guide) 

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

affinity (Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 

aggregate (Data Warehousing Guide) 

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

aging (In-Memory Database Cache User's Guide) 

AL16UTF16 (Globalization Support Guide) 

AL32UTF8 (Globalization Support Guide) 

alert log (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows) 
    [definition #2] (Concepts) 

algorithm settings (Data Mining Concepts) 

algorithm (Data Mining Concepts) 

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

all node patching (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 (Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

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

anomaly detection (Data Mining Concepts) 

anonymity document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

antijoin (Concepts) 

ANYDATA queue (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

API (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 

application architecture (Concepts) 

application conformance (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

application context (Security Guide) 

application domain index (Concepts) 

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

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

application role (Security Guide) 

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

application (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 (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 (Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

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

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

archived redo log file (Concepts) 

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

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

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

archiving (Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

area (Spatial Developer's Guide) 

ascending index (Concepts) 

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

ASCII (Globalization Support Guide) 

ASMLib (Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide) 

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

association rules (Data Mining Concepts) 

association (Data Mining Concepts) 

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

asynchronous writethrough (AWT) cache group (In-Memory Database Cache User's Guide) 

asynchronous (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 

atomically null object (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 for Microsoft Windows) 

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

audio data (Multimedia User's Guide) 

authenticate (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows) 

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

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

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

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

AUTO_SECTION_GROUP (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

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

Automatic Data Transformation (Data Mining Concepts) 

Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) (Concepts) 

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

automatic diagnostic repository (Net Services Administrator's Guide) 

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

automatic refresh (In-Memory Database Cache User's Guide) 

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

automatic undo management mode (Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows) 
    [definition #4] (Installation Guide for IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit)) 
    [definition #5] (Installation Guide for Oracle Solaris) 
    [definition #6] (Installation Guide for HP-UX) 
    [definition #7] (Installation Guide for Linux) 

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

Automatic Workload Repository (Performance Tuning Guide) 

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

Autotrace (Performance Tuning Guide) 

auxiliary channel (Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

auxiliary database (Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

auxiliary destination (Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

auxiliary instance (Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

auxiliary set (Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

availability directive (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 

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

AWR (Concepts)