The Oracle Guru Question #14

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Published: 02 Dec 2003

QUESTION OF THE WEEK:

This is sometimes used to describe databases occupying magnetic storage in the terabyte range and containing billions of table rows.

a. decision support system (DSS)
b. multidimensional database (MDB)
c. Very Large Database (VLDB)
d. relational database management system (RDBMS)
e. object-oriented database management system (OODBMS)

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