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

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Glossary Definitions

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

PACS (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

page space (OLAP User's Guide) 

page (OLAP User's Guide) 

parallel execution (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Database Data Warehousing Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

parallel query (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

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

parallelism (Database Data Warehousing Guide) 

parent cursor (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

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

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

parent workspace (Database Workspace Manager Developer's Guide) 

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

parent-child relation (OLAP User's Guide) 

parse call (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

parse lock (Database Concepts) 

parsed character data (PCDATA) (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide) 

parsing (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

partial index (Database Concepts) 

partial resynchronization (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

partition change tracking (PCT) (Database Data Warehousing Guide) 

partition elimination (Database Concepts) 

partition key (Database Concepts) 

partition maintenance operation (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

partition (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Data Warehousing Guide) 

partition-wise join (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

partitioned index (Database Concepts) 

partitioned table (Database Concepts) 

partitioning (Database Concepts) 

pass-through configuration (Database Migration Assistant for Unicode Guide) 

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

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

Password-Accessible Domains List (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Security Guide) 

password-based software keystore (Database Advanced Security Guide) 

path name (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide) 

PATH_SECTION_GROUP (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

pattern matching (Database Data Warehousing Guide) 

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

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

PDB administrator (Database Concepts) 

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

PDB/non-CDB compatibility guarantee (Database Concepts) 

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

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

pending statistics (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

performance bottleneck (Database Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 

Performance Class ranks (Database Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 

Performance Class (Database Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 

performance feedback (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

performance objectives (Database Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 

Performance Objectives (Database Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 

Performance Policy (Database Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 

Performance Satisfaction Metric (Database Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 

permanent tablespace (Database Concepts) 

persistent LCR (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

persistent LOB (Database SecureFiles and Large Objects Developer's Guide) 

persistent queue (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

persistent user message (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

PGA (Database Concepts) 

phantom (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 

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

physical block corruption (Database High Availability Overview) 

physical corruption (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

physical guess (Database Concepts) 

physical schema (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

physical standby database (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Data Guard Broker) 

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

ping (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 

pinning (Database Object-Relational Developer's Guide) 

pipelined table function (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

pivoting (Database Data Warehousing Guide) 

PKCS #10 (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Security Guide) 

PKCS #11 (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Security Guide) 

PKCS #12 (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Security Guide) 

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

PL/SQL anonymous block (Database Concepts) 

PL/SQL collection (Database Concepts) 

PL/SQL engine (Database Concepts) 

PL/SQL function result cache (Database Concepts) 

PL/SQL function (Database Concepts) 

PL/SQL package (Database Concepts) 

PL/SQL procedure (Database Concepts) 

PL/SQL record (Database Concepts) 

PL/SQL subprogram (Database Concepts) 

PL/SQL (Provider for OLE DB Developer's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #3] (Database Object-Relational Developer's Guide) 
    [definition #4] (Database Platform Guide) 
    [definition #5] (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide) 
    [definition #6] (Database Extensions for .NET Developer's Guide) 

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

plan evolution (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

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

plan selection (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

plan verification (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

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

pluggable database (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Security Guide) 

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

point-in-time recovery (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

policy managed (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide) 

Policy Set (Database Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 

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

polygon (Spatial and Graph Developer's Guide) 

polymorphism (Database Object-Relational Developer's Guide) 

popular value (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

port number (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 

positive rule set (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

positive target value (Data Mining Concepts) 

pragma (Database Concepts) 

precalculate (OLAP User's Guide) 

precision (Database Concepts) 

precommit handler (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

precompiler (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Database Platform Guide) 

precompute (OLAP User's Guide) 

predicate pushing (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

predicate (Database Concepts) 

predictive model (Data Mining Concepts) 

predictor (Data Mining Concepts) 

preference document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

preference (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

prefix compression (Database Concepts) 

preparation (Database Migration Assistant for Unicode Guide) 

prepared data (Data Mining Concepts) 

prepared table (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

preparer server (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

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

primary database (Data Guard Broker) 

primary filter (Spatial and Graph Developer's Guide) 

primary key constraint (Database Concepts) 

primary key (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #2] (Database Object-Relational Developer's Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide) 

Principal Component Analysis (Data Mining Concepts) 

principal (Database Real Application Security Administrator's and Developer's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Security Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 

printjoin (Text Application Developer's Guide) 

prior probabilities (Data Mining Concepts) 

priors (Data Mining Concepts) 

private attributes (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

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

private dictionary document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide) 

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

private keys (Database Platform Guide) 

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

privilege analysis (Database Concepts) 

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

privileges (Database Workspace Manager Developer's Guide) 

proactive SQL tuning (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

problem (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

procedural language (Database Concepts) 

procedure DML handler (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

procedure (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 

process monitor (PMON) (Database Concepts) 

process (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Concepts) 
    [definition #3] (Database Platform Guide) 

producer (Database Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 

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

program global area (PGA) (Database Concepts) 

program interface (Database Concepts) 

program name (Database Quality of Service Management User's Guide) 

projected coordinates (Spatial and Graph Developer's Guide) 

projection view (Database SQL Tuning Guide) 

projection (Spatial and Graph Developer's Guide) 

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

propagate (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 
    [definition #2] (TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache User's Guide) 

propagation job (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

propagation schedule (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

propagation (Database Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Streams Concepts and Administration) 

protected database (Database Concepts) 

protection policy (Database Concepts) 

protocol address (Database Net Services Reference) 
    [definition #2] (Database Net Services Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #4] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #5] (Database Client Installation Guide) 
    [definition #6] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #7] (Database Installation Guide) 
    [definition #8] (Database Installation Guide) 

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

protocol message logging (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide) 

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

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

protocols (Multimedia User's Guide) 

provider (Database Platform Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Provider for OLE DB Developer's Guide) 

proximity (Spatial and Graph Developer's Guide) 

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

proxy copy (Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide) 

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

pseudocolumn (Database Concepts) 

public and private key pair (Database Advanced Security Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Security Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 

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

public key cryptography (Database Platform Guide) 

public key encryption (Database Advanced Security Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 

public key infrastructure (PKI) (Database Advanced Security Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Security Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 

public key (Database Advanced Security Guide) 
    [definition #2] (Database Security Guide) 
    [definition #3] (Database Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide) 
    [definition #4] (Database Platform Guide) 

PUBLIC role (Database Security Guide) 

publish/subscribe (Database Advanced Queuing User's Guide) 

purge job (Database Security Guide)