COBOL
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A third-generation programming language. |
column
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A means of implementing an item of
data within a table. See attribute, row, and table. |
command
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An instruction in a programming language.
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| Common Gateway Interface
(CGI) |
A standard defining a set of rules
by which a Web server passes a Web browser’s request to an application
program and receives back data for forwarding to the browser. |
Common
Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)
|
A language-independent
distributed object model specified by the Object Management Group (OMG). |
Common
Warehouse Metadata Interchange (CWMI)
|
A standard specification
to enable the interchange of warehouse metadata among data management and
analysis tools and among warehouse metadata repositories. Oracle is a member
of a multivendor working group to identify and enable this standard. |
Common
Warehouse Model (CWM)
|
Oracle's open standard
for data warehousing. CWM integrates all aspects of warehousing, incorporating
both technical and business metadata. |
compiler
|
A program to translate source code
into code that can be executed by a computer. |
component-based development
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Development methodology in which preassembled
building blocks of code are combined. |
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composite
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A list of dimension-value
combinations in which a given combination has one value taken from each
of the dimensions on which the composite is based, in order to store sparse
data in a compact form. |
composite
key
|
A key in a database table
that is made up of a number of column or field values. Synonymous with compound
key. |
compound
key
|
A key in a database table
that is made up of a number of column or field values. Synonymous with composite
key. |
Computer-Aided
Systems Engineering (CASE)
|
The combination of dictionary, generator, graphical, project management, and other software tools to
assist computer-development engineers in maintaining systems.
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concatenated
index
|
An
index that is created on a composite key.
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concatenated
key
|
A key in a database table
that is made up of a number of column or field values. |
conjoint
|
A
dimension that is built on base dimensions in order to achieve fine control
over the status of individual combinations of base dimension values. Each
value in a conjoint is a combination of values, one from each of the conjoint's
base dimensions. Contrast with composite. See also dimension, dimension
value, sparsity, and variable. |
constellation
model
|
A
warehouse model that comprises a collection of star models. See also snowflake model and star model. |
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constraint
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The
part of the WHERE clause in a SQL SELECT statement that identifies the
column or field value that qualifies the query.
Any
factor that restricts a business in terms of availability, dependencies, resources, time scales, or other factor. See also business rule.
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container
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In Java, an entity that
provides life cycle management, security, deployment, and runtime services
to components. |
container-managed
persistence
|
When the transfer of data between an entity bean's
variables and the underlying resource manager is managed by the enterprise
bean's container.
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container-managed
transaction
|
When an Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) container
defines the boundaries of a transaction. An entity bean must use container-managed
transactions.
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| content-delivery network
(CDN) |
A network specializing
in the delivery of streaming audio and video. |
cookie
|
On the internet, a piece
of information sent by a Web server and saved on the client’s hard
disk for future use whenever making additional requests from that server.
Typically, a cookie records user preferences for a particular site. |
CORBA
- Common Object Request Broker Architecture
|
A language-independent distributed object model specified by the Object Management Group (OMG).
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corporate data model
|
A model of the business needs and data requirements
for an online transaction processing system.
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cost-based
optimizer
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A
statistical mechanism that analyzes where and how to retrieve data from
the Oracle7 and Oracle8 servers to ensure fast access to data.
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CRM
- customer relationship management
|
The set of processes and
supporting software that allows an organization to collect and leverage
information on customer interactions with sales, marketing, and customer
service departments. |
crosstab
|
A
layout of multidimensional data in rows, columns, and pages. In data warehousing,
a crosstab can be used to display summary information and show how data
varies across dimensions, such as sales by region by month. A crosstab is
sometimes called a matrix. See also rotate. |
cube
|
A logical organization
of multidimensional data. The edges of the cube contain dimension members,
and the body of the cube contains measure values. For example, sales data
can be organized into a cube whose edges contain values from the time,
product, and customer dimensions and whose body contains values from the
volume sales and dollar sales measures. |
customer
relationship management (CRM)
|
The set of processes and
supporting software that allows an organization to collect and leverage
information on customer interactions with sales, marketing, and customer
service departments.
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| CWM - Common
Warehouse Model |
Oracle's open standard
for data warehousing. CWM integrates all aspects of warehousing, incorporating
both technical and business metadata. |
| CWMI - Common
Warehouse Metadata Interchange |
A standard specification
to enable the interchange of warehouse metadata among data management and
analysis tools and among warehouse metadata repositories. Oracle is a member
of a multivendor working group to identify and enable this standard. |
Cyberspace
|
A term originated by author William
Gibson in his novel Neuromancer that is currently used to describe the internet
medium and the range of information resources available through it. |
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