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10g
23 Aug 2004
WORD - 10g is Oracle's grid computing product group including (among other things) a database management system (DBMS) and an application server. In addition to supporting grid computing features such as resource sharing and ...
flexfield
05 Jul 2004
WORD - In an Oracle environment, a flexfield is a database field that has flexibility built into it so that users can define reporting structures that are relevant to their specific organizations. Two types of flexfields are ...
row
27 Oct 2003
WORD - In a database, a row (sometimes called a record) is the set of fields within a table that are relevant to a specific entity. For example, in a table called customer contact information, a row would likely contain fields such ...
extent
05 Jul 2003
WORD - 1) An extent is a set of contiguous blocks allocated in a database. In the Oracle database program, the first set of contiguous blocks, set up automatically when a segment is created, is called the initial extent. After the ...
foreign key
27 May 2003
WORD - A foreign key, also called a foreign keyword, in a database table is a key from another table that refers to (or targets) a specific key, usually the primary key , in the table being used. A primary key can be targeted by ...
Oracle
30 Jun 2003
WORD - Oracle (in ancient Greece, someone in touch with the deities; from Latin, oraculum or divine announcement) says it is the world's leading supplier of software for information management but it is best known for its ...
field
27 Oct 2003
WORD - A field is an area in a fixed or known location in a unit of data such as a record, message header, or computer instruction that has a purpose and usually a fixed size. In some contexts, a field can be subdivided into smaller ...
delimiter
25 Jul 2001
WORD - In computer programming, a delimiter is a character that identifies the beginning or the end of a character string (a contiguous sequence of characters). The delimiting character is not part of the character string. In ...


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