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

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NA value (OLAP User's Guide) 

Naive Bayes (Data Mining Concepts) 

name search (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

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

namespace (Database Real Application Security Administrator's and Developer's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Extensions for .NET Developer's Guide) 
    [definition #4] (Database Security Guide) 

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

naming method (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Net Services Reference) 
    [definition #3] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #4] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #5] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #6] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #7] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #8] (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #9] (Database Security Guide) 

Naming method (Database Client Installation Guide) 

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

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

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

national character set (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (Database Security Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 

native transfer rate (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

natural key (Database Concepts) 

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

NDV (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

negative rule set (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

neighborhood influence (Spatial and Graph Developer's Guide) 

nested data (Data Mining Concepts) 

nested loops join (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

nested table (Database Object-Relational Developer's Guide) 

net service alias (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Security Guide) 

net service name (Services for Microsoft Transaction Server Developer's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #4] (Database Client Installation Guide) 
    [definition #5] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #6] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #7] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #8] (Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 
    [definition #9] (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #10] (Database Platform Guide) 
    [definition #11] (Database Security Guide) 

network address (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 

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

Network Attached Storage (NAS) (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 

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

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

network database (Database Concepts) 

network encryption (Database Concepts) 

network failure (Database High Availability Overview) 

Network File System (NFS) (Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide) 

Network Information Service (NIS) (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Net Services Reference) 

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

Network Interface Card (NIC) (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 

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

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

Network Program Interface (NPI) (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 

Network Program Interface (Database Net Services Reference) 

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

network server processes (Database High Availability Best Practices) 
    [definition #2] (Database High Availability Overview) 

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

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

network service (Database Platform Guide) 

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

network switch (Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 

Network Time Protocol (NTP) (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 

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

NEWS_SECTION_GROUP (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

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

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

NLB files (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

NLS (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

NLSRTL (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

NLT files (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

NMF (Data Mining Concepts) 

NOARCHIVELOG mode (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

node (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide) 
    [definition #4] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide) 
    [definition #5] (Database Net Services Reference) 

non-CDB (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Security Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Concepts) 

Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (Data Mining Concepts) 

non-repudiation (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Security Guide) 

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

noncircular reuse record (Database Concepts) 

noncircular reuse records (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

nondeferrable constraint (Database Concepts) 

nonequijoin (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

nonjoin column (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

nonpersistent queue (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

nonpersistent (Database Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 

nonpopular value (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

nonscalar attribute (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

nontransactional queue (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

nontransactional (Database Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 

nonwriter site (Database Workspace Manager Developer's Guide) 

normal restore point (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

normalization (Data Mining Concepts) 

normalize (Database Data Warehousing Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Object-Relational Developer's Guide) 
    [definition #3] (OLAP User's Guide) 

normalized word (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

notation attribute declaration (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide) 

noworkload statistics (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

null string (Database Globalization Support Guide) 

null (Database Concepts) 

NULL_SECTION_GROUP (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

numerical attribute (Data Mining Concepts)