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

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Glossary Definitions

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

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 Net Services Reference) 

calculated measure (OLAP User's Guide) 

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

canonical equivalence (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

canonical (Database 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] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #4] (Database Data Warehousing Guide) 
    [definition #5] (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

Cartesian coordinate system (Spatial and Graph Developer's Guide) 

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

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

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

case conversion (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

case table (Data Mining Concepts) 

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

case-insensitive linguistic collation (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

catalog database (Database Global Data Services Concepts and Administration Guide) 

categorical attribute (Data Mining Concepts) 

CCSID (Database Provider for DRDA User's Guide) 

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

CDB administrator (Database Concepts) 

CDB (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Security Guide) 
    [definition #4] (Database Security Guide) 
    [definition #5] (Database Concepts) 

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

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

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

certificate revocation list (CRL) (Database Security Guide) 

certificate revocation lists (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 

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

change cycling (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

change handler (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

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 form (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

character encoding scheme (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

character encoding (Database Concepts) 

Character Large Object (CLOB) (Database SecureFiles and Large Objects Developer's Guide) 

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

Character Large Object (CLOB) (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide) 

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

character repertoire (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

character semantics (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Database Globalization Support Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Migration Assistant for Unicode Guide) 

character set migration (Database Globalization Support Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Migration Assistant for Unicode Guide) 

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

character string (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

character (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

check constraint (Database Concepts) 

Check for Updates Wizard (Database Migration Assistant for Unicode Guide) 

checkpoint interval (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

checkpoint process (CKPT) (Database Concepts) 

checkpoint retention time (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

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

checksum (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

circular reuse record (Database Concepts) 

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) 
    [definition #2] (Database Net Services Reference) 

Classless Inter-Domain Routing (Database Security Guide) 

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

cleansing (Database Data Warehousing Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Migration Assistant for Unicode Guide) 

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

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

client cluster (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment 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 Security Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #3] (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #4] (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #5] (Database Net Services Reference) 

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 (Spatial and Graph RDF Semantic Graph Developer's Guide) 

CLOB (Database 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 administrator (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 

cluster centroid (Data Mining Concepts) 

cluster configuration policy set (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide) 

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

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 Health Monitor (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 

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 scan (Database SQL Tuning 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 unit (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

codecs (Multimedia User's Guide) 

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

cold buffer (Database Concepts) 

collation (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

colocation (Spatial and Graph Developer's Guide) 

column group statistics (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

column group (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

column level security (Database Real Application Security Administrator's and Developer's Guide) 

column list (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

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

column statistics (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

column (Database Concepts) 

columnar format (Database Concepts) 

COM (Database Platform Guide) 

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

commit cleanout (Database Concepts) 

commit outcome (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide) 

commit (Database Concepts) 

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

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

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

common privilege grant (Database Security Guide) 

common role (Database Security Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Concepts) 

common user (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Security Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Concepts) 

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

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

complete refresh (Database Concepts) 

complex view merging (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

Component Object Model (COM) (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 database operation (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

composite domain index (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

composite index (Database Concepts) 

composite partitioning (Database Concepts) 

composite unique key (Database Concepts) 

composite (OLAP User's Guide) 

compound trigger (Database Concepts) 

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) 

concatenated index (Database Concepts) 

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

concurrent statistics gathering mode (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

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

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 Security Guide) 

configuration document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

configuration object (Data Guard Broker) 

conflict resolution (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

conflict (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

conflicting write (Database Concepts) 

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 Installation Guide) 
    [definition #9] (Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 
    [definition #10] (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #11] (Database Platform Guide) 
    [definition #12] (Database Security 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 Platform Guide) 
    [definition #7] (Database Security Guide) 
    [definition #8] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #9] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #10] (Database Installation Guide) 

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

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

connection pooling (Database Concepts) 

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

connection string (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 

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

ConnectionFactory (Database Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 

consistency (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 

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

consistent read get (Database Concepts) 

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

consumption (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

contain (Spatial and Graph Developer's Guide) 

container data object (Database Security Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Concepts) 

container (Database Security Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Concepts) 

content metadata (Multimedia User's Guide) 

CONTEXT index (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

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

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 Platform Guide) 
    [definition #4] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #5] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #6] (Database Installation Guide) 

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

convex hull (Spatial and Graph Developer's Guide) 

coordinate reference system (Spatial and Graph Developer's Guide) 

coordinate system (Spatial and Graph Developer's Guide) 

coordinate (Spatial and Graph Developer's Guide) 

coordinator process (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

copy (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

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

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

cost matrix (Data Mining Concepts) 

cost model (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

cost of downtime (Database High Availability Overview) 

cost (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

cost-based optimizer (CBO) (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

counterexample (Data Mining Concepts) 

cover (Spatial and Graph Developer's Guide) 

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

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

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

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

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

cross product (Database Data Warehousing Guide) 

cross-container operation (Database Concepts) 

cross-platform backup (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

crosscheck (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

CRSD (Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 

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

CSALTER script (Database Migration Assistant for Unicode Guide) 

CSREPAIR script (Database Migration Assistant for Unicode Guide) 

CSS Cluster (Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide) 

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

CSSCAN script (Database Migration Assistant for Unicode 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) 

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 (OLAP User's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Concepts) 

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

cumulative statistics (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

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

current mode get (Database Concepts) 

current online redo log file (Database Concepts) 

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

current version (Database Workspace Manager Developer's Guide) 

cursor cache (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

cursor merging (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

cursor (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 
    [definition #3] (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 privilege (Database Real Application Security Administrator's and Developer's Guide) 

custom rule-based transformation (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

custom SQL translation (Database Migration Guide) 

Cytoscape (Spatial and Graph RDF Semantic Graph Developer's Guide)