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Oracle® Database Online Documentation Library Master Glossary: A
12c Release 1 (12.1.0.2)

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A to B conversion (Database Migration Assistant for Unicode Guide) 

accent (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

accent-insensitive linguistic sort (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

accepted plan (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

access control entry (ACE) (Database Real Application Security Administrator's and Developer's Guide) 

access control list (ACL) (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Net Services Reference) 
    [definition #3] (Database Real Application Security Administrator's and Developer's Guide) 

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

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

access driver (Database Concepts) 

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

ACE (Database Real Application Security Administrator's and Developer's Guide) 

ACID properties (Database Concepts) 

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

ACL (Database Net Services Reference) 
    [definition #2] (Database Real Application Security Administrator's and Developer's Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 

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 online redo log file (Database Concepts) 

Active Session History (ASH) (Database Concepts) 

active session (Database Concepts) 

active transaction (Database Concepts) 

active version (Database Workspace Manager Developer's Guide) 

actual data (Database Advanced Security Guide) 

adapter (Database Migration Guide) 

adaptive cursor sharing (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

adaptive optimizer (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

adaptive plan (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

adaptive query optimization (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

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

ADDM (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

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 base (Database Concepts) 

ADR home (Database Concepts) 

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

ADT (Database Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 

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

advanced index compression (Database Concepts) 

advisor (Database Data Warehousing Guide) 

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

affinity hint (Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 

affinity (Database Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 

agent framework (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 

agent (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 

aggregate function (Database Concepts) 

aggregate privilege (Database Real Application Security Administrator's and Developer'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 function (Database Concepts) 

analytic query (Database Concepts) 

analytic workspace (OLAP User's Guide) 

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

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

anomaly detection (Data Mining Concepts) 

anonymity document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

antijoin (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

ANYDATA queue (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

API (Database Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 

application architecture (Database Concepts) 

application conformance (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

application context (Database Security Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Concepts) 

Application Continuity (Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Concepts) 

application domain index (Database Concepts) 

Application Entity title (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

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

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

Application requester (AR) (Database Provider for DRDA User's Guide) 

application role (Database Real Application Security Administrator's and Developer's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Security Guide) 

Application server (AS) (Database Provider for DRDA User's Guide) 

application server (Database Concepts) 

application session (Database Real Application Security Administrator's and Developer's Guide) 

application user (Database Real Application Security Administrator's and Developer'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 (Spatial and Graph RDF Semantic Graph 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 (Database 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 Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Concepts) 

archiver process (ARCn) (Database Concepts) 

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

area (Spatial and Graph Developer's Guide) 

AS/400 (Database Provider for DRDA User'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 (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Extensions for .NET Developer's Guide) 

association rules (Data Mining Concepts) 

association (Data Mining Concepts) 

asynchronous I/O (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

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

asynchronous (Database 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 and Graph Developer's Guide) 

attribute importance (Data Mining Concepts) 

attribute section (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

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

attribute-clustered table (Database Concepts) 

audio data (Multimedia User's Guide) 

audit trail (Database Concepts) 

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 Security Guide) 

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

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

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

auto-login software keystore (Database Advanced Security Guide) 

AUTO_SECTION_GROUP (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

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

Automatic Data Preparation (Data Mining Concepts) 

Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

Automatic Diagnostic Repository (ADR) (Database Net Services Reference) 
    [definition #2] (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 
    [definition #4] (Database Concepts) 

automatic initial plan capture (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

automatic memory management (Database Concepts) 

automatic optimizer statistics collection (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

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

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

automatic reoptimization (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

automatic segment space management (ASSM) (Database Concepts) 

Automatic SQL Tuning Advisor (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

automatic SQL tuning (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

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

Automatic Tuning Optimizer (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

automatic undo management mode (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #4] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #5] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #6] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #7] (Database Installation Guide) 

Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #4] (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

autonomous transaction (Database Concepts) 

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

AWR snapshot (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

AWR (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Database SQL Tuning Guide)