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

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

cache administration user (In-Memory Database Cache User's Guide) 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

cache manager user (In-Memory Database Cache User's Guide) 

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

cache table users (In-Memory Database Cache User's Guide) 

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

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

calculated measure (OLAP User's Guide) 

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

canonical equivalence (Globalization Support Guide) 

canonical (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 

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

Cartesian coordinate system (Spatial Developer's Guide) 

Cartesian product (Performance Tuning Guide) 

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

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

case conversion (Globalization Support Guide) 

case table (Data Mining Concepts) 

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

case-insensitive linguistic sort (Globalization Support Guide) 

categorical attribute (Data Mining Concepts) 

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

CDS (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 

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

cell (OLAP User's Guide) 

centroid (Data Mining Concepts) 

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

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

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

certificate revocation list (CRL) (Security Guide) 

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

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

change cycling (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

change handler (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

change set (Data Warehousing Guide) 

change table (Data Warehousing Guide) 

channel parallelism (Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

channel (Backup and Recovery User's 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 encoding (Concepts) 

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

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

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

character repertoire (Globalization Support Guide) 

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

character set migration (Globalization Support Guide) 

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

character string (Globalization Support Guide) 

character (Globalization Support Guide) 

checkpoint interval (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

checkpoint retention time (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

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

checksum (Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

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

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

child table (In-Memory Database Cache User's Guide) 

child workspace (Workspace Manager Developer's Guide) 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

circular reuse records (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 (Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 

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

Classless Inter-Domain Routing (Security Guide) 

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

cleansing (Data Warehousing Guide) 

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

client character set (Globalization Support Guide) 

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

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

client process (Concepts) 

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

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

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

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

clipping (Data Mining Concepts) 

clique (Semantic Technologies Developer's Guide) 

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

closed backup (Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

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

cluster centroid (Data Mining Concepts) 

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

cluster index (Concepts) 

cluster key (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] (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] (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 

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

cluster-aware (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 

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

clusterware (Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 

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

CMADMIN (Connection Manager Administration) (Net Services Reference) 

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

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

CMGW (Connection Manager gateway) (Net Services Reference) 

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

code point (Globalization Support Guide) 

Code Template (CT) (Warehouse Builder Concepts) 

Code Template mapping (Warehouse Builder Concepts) 

code unit (Globalization Support Guide) 

codecs (Multimedia User's Guide) 

cold backup (Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

collation (Globalization Support Guide) 

colocation (Spatial Developer's Guide) 

column list (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

column object (Object-Relational Developer's Guide) 

column (Concepts) 

COM (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows) 

command file (Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

commit (Concepts) 

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

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

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 User's Guide) 

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

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

component-based shadow copies (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows) 

composite domain index (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

composite index (Concepts) 

composite partitioning (Concepts) 

composite (OLAP User's Guide) 

compound query (Performance Tuning Guide) 

compressed cube (OLAP User's Guide) 

compression unit (Concepts) 

compression (OLAP User's Guide) 

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

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

condition (Concepts) 

conditional log group (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

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

confidentiality (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (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 (Workspace Manager Developer's Guide) 

conformance validation (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

confusion matrix (Data Mining Concepts) 

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

connect descriptor (Client Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows) 
    [definition #2] (Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Installation Guide for Linux) 
    [definition #4] (Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows) 
    [definition #5] (Installation Guide for Oracle Solaris) 
    [definition #6] (Installation Guide for IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit)) 
    [definition #7] (Installation Guide for HP-UX) 
    [definition #8] (Net Services Reference) 
    [definition #9] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #10] (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #11] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows) 

connect identifier (Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference) 
    [definition #3] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #4] (Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows) 
    [definition #5] (Installation Guide for IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit)) 
    [definition #6] (Installation Guide for Oracle Solaris) 
    [definition #7] (Installation Guide for HP-UX) 
    [definition #8] (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #9] (Installation Guide for Linux) 
    [definition #10] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows) 

connect string (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) 
    [definition #5] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows) 

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

connection attribute (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 

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

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

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

connection string (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 

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

ConnectionFactory (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 

connector (Warehouse Builder Concepts) 

consistency (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 

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

consistent shutdown (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 for Microsoft Windows) 

consumption (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

contain (Spatial Developer's Guide) 

content metadata (Multimedia User's Guide) 

contention (Performance Tuning Guide) 

CONTEXT index (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

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

Control Center Agent (CCA) (Warehouse Builder Concepts) 

Control Center Manager (Warehouse Builder Concepts) 

Control Center Service (Warehouse Builder Concepts) 

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

control file (Concepts) 

control files (Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows) 
    [definition #2] (Installation Guide for IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit)) 
    [definition #3] (Installation Guide for Oracle Solaris) 
    [definition #4] (Installation Guide for HP-UX) 
    [definition #5] (Installation Guide for Linux) 
    [definition #6] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows) 

control row (Warehouse Builder Concepts) 

convert script (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 for Microsoft Windows) 

coordinator process (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

copy (Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

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

corrupt block (Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

cost matrix (Data Mining Concepts) 

cost of downtime (High Availability Overview) 

counterexample (Data Mining Concepts) 

cover (Spatial Developer's Guide) 

crash recovery (Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

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

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

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

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

cross product (Data Warehousing Guide) 

crosscheck (Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

CRS Administrator (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 

CRSD (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 

cryptography (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (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] (Concepts) 
    [definition #3] (OLAP User's Guide) 

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

current incarnation (Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

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

current version (Workspace Manager Developer's Guide) 

cursor (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 (Semantic Technologies Developer's Guide)