Glossary

"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean." —Humpty Dumpty

2PC: (See two-phase commit)

ACID: The properties of a reliable transactional system: Atomic, Consistent, Isolated and Durable.

archived redo logfile: (See log file(archived))

array: A list of related items of uniform size. If you know the size of an item, you can calculate the location of the nth item in the list.

AMM (automatic memory management): Introduced in 11g, this allows you to tell the instance how much memory it is allowed to acquire, but lets the instance decide dynamically how to share the memory between the server processes and the SGA.

ASM (automatic storage management): Introduced in 10g, this is the feature that uses a special version of an ...

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