Oracle Database Master Glossary: A
10g Release 2 (10.2)

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Glossary Definitions

ABN (Data Mining Concepts)

abstract data type (ADT) (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

accent (Globalization Support Guide)

accent-insensitive linguistic sort (Globalization Support Guide)

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

access control entry (ACE) (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

access control list (ACL) (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
[definition #2] (Net Services Reference)
[definition #3] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

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

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

ACL (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
[definition #2] (Net Services Reference)
[definition #3] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

action context (Streams Concepts and Administration)

Active Catalog (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

active learning (Data Mining Concepts)

active version (Application Developer's Guide - Workspace Manager)

adaptive bayes network (Data Mining Concepts)

additive (Data Warehousing Guide)
[definition #2] (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

ADDM (Concepts)

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

ADT (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference)

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

advisor (Data Warehousing Guide)

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

AFTER trigger (Concepts)

aggregate (Data Warehousing Guide)

aggregation (Data Mining Concepts)
[definition #2] (Data Warehousing Guide)
[definition #3] (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

AL16UTF16 (Globalization Support Guide)

AL32UTF8 (Globalization Support Guide)

algorithm (Data Mining Concepts)

algorithm settings (Data Mining Concepts)

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

alternate spelling (Text Application Developer's Guide)

analytic workspace (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

ancestor (Data Warehousing Guide)
[definition #2] (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

anomaly detection (Data Mining Concepts)

ANYDATA queue (Streams Concepts and Administration)

Apache (HTTP Server Administrator's Guide)

API (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference)

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

application programming interface (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference)

application roles (Security Guide)

application server (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

Application Server Control Console (HTTP Server Administrator's Guide)

applied SCN (Streams Concepts and Administration)

apply (Data Mining Concepts)

apply forwarding (Streams Concepts and Administration)

apply handler (Streams Concepts and Administration)

apply instance (Data Guard Broker)

apply process (Streams Concepts and Administration)

apply servers (Streams Concepts and Administration)

apply settings (Data Mining Concepts)

apply user (Streams Concepts and Administration)

approximate commit system change number (approximate CSCN) (Streams Concepts and Administration)

approximate CSCN (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference)

apriori (Data Mining Concepts)

architecture (Concepts)

archived redo log (Backup and Recovery Basics)

archived-log downstream capture process (Streams Concepts and Administration)

ARCHIVELOG mode (Concepts)
[definition #2] (Backup and Recovery Basics)

archiving (Backup and Recovery Basics)

area (Spatial User's Guide and Reference)

ASCII (Globalization Support Guide)

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

ASM (Concepts)

association (Data Mining Concepts)

association rules (Data Mining Concepts)

asynchronous (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference)

asynchronous I/O (Performance Tuning Guide)

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

attribute data (Spatial User's Guide and Reference)

attribute importance (Data Mining Concepts)

attribute section (Text Application Developer's Guide)

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

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

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

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

automatic channel allocation (Backup and Recovery Basics)

Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) (Concepts)

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) (Concepts)

Automatic Storage Management disk (Concepts)

Automatic Storage Management file (Concepts)

Automatic Storage Management instance (Concepts)

Automatic Storage Management template (Concepts)

automatic undo management mode (Concepts)
[definition #2] (Backup and Recovery Basics)

Automatic Workload Repository (Performance Tuning Guide)

Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) (Concepts)