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Oracle Database Master Glossary: C
11g Release 1 (11.1)

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Glossary Definitions

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

cache (Performance Tuning Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Net Services Reference)

cache coherency (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

Cache Fusion (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

cache recovery (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Performance Tuning Guide)

calculated measure (OLAP User's Guide)

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

canonical equivalence (Globalization Support Guide)

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 (Data Warehousing Guide)

Cartesian coordinate system (Spatial Developer's Guide)

Cartesian product (Performance Tuning Guide)

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

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

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

case conversion (Globalization Support Guide)

case table (Data Mining Concepts)

case-insensitive linguistic sort (Globalization Support Guide)

categorical attribute (Data Mining Concepts)

category (Data Mining Concepts)

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

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

cell (OLAP User's Guide)

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

centroid (Data Mining Concepts)

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

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

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

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

certificate revocation list (CRL) (Security Guide)

certificate revocation lists (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

change cycling (Streams Concepts and Administration)

change set (Data Warehousing Guide)

change table (Data Warehousing Guide)

channel (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

channel parallelism (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

character (Globalization Support Guide)

character classification (Globalization Support Guide)

character code (Globalization Support Guide)

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

character encoding scheme (Globalization Support Guide)

Character Large Object (CLOB) (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Oracle Objects for OLE Developer's Guide)
    [definition #3] (SecureFiles and Large Objects Developer's Guide)

character repertoire (Globalization Support Guide)

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

character set (Globalization Support Guide)

character set migration (Globalization Support Guide)

character string (Globalization Support Guide)

CHECK constraint (Concepts)

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

checkpoint interval (Streams Concepts and Administration)

checkpoint retention time (Streams Concepts and Administration)

checksum (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

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

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

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

child workspace (Workspace Manager Developer's Guide)

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

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

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

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

circular reuse records (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

Class Generator (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

classification (Data Mining Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Text Application Developer's Guide)

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

cleansing (Data Warehousing Guide)

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

client (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #5] (Net Services Reference)

client character set (Globalization Support Guide)

client load balancing (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

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

client/server architecture (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Net Services Reference)

clipping (Data Mining Concepts)

CLOB (SecureFiles and Large Objects Developer's Guide)

closed backup (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

cluster (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

cluster centroid (Data Mining Concepts)

cluster database (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

cluster file system (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

Cluster File System (CFS) (Storage Administrator's Guide)

Cluster Synchronization Services (CSS) (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

Cluster Verification Utility (CVU) (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

clustering (Data Mining Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Text Application Developer's Guide)

CMADMIN (Connection Manager Administration) (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

cman.ora file (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

CMGW (Connection Manager gateway) (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

code point (Globalization Support Guide)

code unit (Globalization Support Guide)

codecs (Multimedia User's Guide)

cold backup (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

collation (Globalization Support Guide)

colocation (Spatial Developer's Guide)

column (Concepts)

column list (Streams Concepts and Administration)

command file (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

commit (Concepts)

commit-time queue (Streams Concepts and Administration)

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

Common Object Request Broker API (CORBA) (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

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

Common Warehouse Metadata (CWM) (Data Warehousing Guide)

complete recovery (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

Component Object Model (COM) (COM Automation Feature Developer's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Provider for OLE DB Developer's Guide)

component object model (COM) (Services for Microsoft Transaction Server Developer's Guide)

composite (OLAP User's Guide)

composite domain index (Text Application Developer's Guide)

compound query (Performance Tuning Guide)

compressed cube (OLAP User's Guide)

compression (OLAP User's Guide)

concurrency (Concepts)

conditional log group (Streams Concepts and Administration)

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

configuration document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

configuration object (Data Guard Broker)

conflict (Streams Concepts and Administration)

conflict resolution (Streams Concepts and Administration)

conflicts (Workspace Manager Developer's Guide)

conformance validation (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

confusion matrix (Data Mining Concepts)

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

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

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

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

connect-time failover (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

connection (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Data Mining Concepts)
    [definition #3] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Net Services Reference)

connection load balancing (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

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

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

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

consistent shutdown (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

consistent solve specification (OLAP User's Guide)

constraint document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

constraint rule (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

consumer (Provider for OLE DB Developer's Guide)

consumption (Streams Concepts and Administration)

contain (Spatial Developer's Guide)

content metadata (Multimedia User's Guide)

contention (Performance Tuning Guide)

context (Workspace Manager Developer's Guide)

CONTEXT index (Text Application Developer's Guide)

control file (Concepts)

control file autobackup (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

convert script (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

convex hull (Spatial Developer's Guide)

coordinate (Spatial Developer's Guide)

coordinate reference system (Spatial Developer's Guide)

coordinate system (Spatial Developer's Guide)

coordinated universal time (UTC) (Oracle Objects for OLE Developer's Guide)

coordinator process (Streams Concepts and Administration)

copy (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

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

corrupt block (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

cost matrix (Data Mining Concepts)

counterexample (Data Mining Concepts)

cover (Spatial Developer's Guide)

crash recovery (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

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

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

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

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

cross product (Data Warehousing Guide)

crosscheck (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

CRSD (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

CRSD - Oracle Clusterware Daemon (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

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

CSS (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's 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)

CTXXPATH index (Text Application Developer's Guide)

cube (OLAP User'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)

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

current incarnation (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

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

current version (Workspace Manager Developer's Guide)

custom apply (Streams Concepts and Administration)

custom measure (OLAP User's Guide)

custom member (OLAP User's Guide)

custom rule-based transformation (Streams Concepts and Administration)