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11g Release 2 (11.2)

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MAA environment (High Availability Best Practices; search in this book
    [definition #2] (High Availability Overview; search in this book

maintenance window (Quality of Service Management User's Guide; search in this book

man-in-the-middle (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide; search in this book
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide; search in this book

manageability goal (High Availability Overview; search in this book

mandatory auditing (Security Guide; search in this book

manifest document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide; search in this book

manual failover (Data Guard Broker; search in this book

manual undo management mode (Concepts; search in this book
    [definition #2] (Database Installation Guide for HP-UX; search in this book
    [definition #3] (Database Installation Guide for IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit); search in this book
    [definition #4] (Database Installation Guide for Linux; search in this book
    [definition #5] (Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows; search in this book
    [definition #6] (Database Installation Guide for Oracle Solaris; search in this book

map (Net Services Administrator's Guide; search in this book
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference; search in this book

mapped attribute (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide; search in this book

mapping (Data Warehousing Guide; search in this book
    [definition #2] (OLAP User's Guide; search in this book
    [definition #3] (Warehouse Builder Concepts; search in this book

mapping document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide; search in this book

mapping operator (Warehouse Builder Concepts; search in this book

markup (Text Application Developer's Guide; search in this book

marshalling (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide; search in this book

Master Boot Record (MBR) (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide; search in this book
    [definition #2] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide; search in this book

master site (Concepts; search in this book

master table (Concepts; search in this book

master-detail tables (Concepts; search in this book

match bin set (Warehouse Builder Concepts; search in this book

match pattern (Semantic Technologies Developer's Guide; search in this book

materialized view (Concepts; search in this book
    [definition #2] (Data Warehousing Guide; search in this book
    [definition #3] (Object-Relational Developer's Guide; search in this book
    [definition #4] (OLAP User's Guide; search in this book

maximum checkpoint SCN (Streams Concepts and Administration; search in this book

MD5 (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide; search in this book
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide; search in this book

MDATA (Text Application Developer's Guide; search in this book

MDATA section (Text Application Developer's Guide; search in this book

MDL (Data Mining Concepts; search in this book

mean time to recover (MTTR) (Backup and Recovery User's Guide; search in this book

measure (Data Warehousing Guide; search in this book
    [definition #2] (OLAP User's Guide; search in this book
    [definition #3] (Spatial Developer's Guide; search in this book

measure folder (OLAP User's Guide; search in this book

measure range (Spatial Developer's Guide; search in this book

media data (Multimedia User's Guide; search in this book

media failure (Backup and Recovery User's Guide; search in this book

media management catalog (Backup and Recovery User's Guide; search in this book

media management library (Backup and Recovery User's Guide; search in this book

media manager (Backup and Recovery User's Guide; search in this book

media manager multiplexing (Backup and Recovery User's Guide; search in this book

media recovery (Concepts; search in this book
    [definition #2] (Backup and Recovery User's Guide; search in this book

memory pressure (Quality of Service Management User's Guide; search in this book

merging (a workspace) (Workspace Manager Developer's Guide; search in this book

message (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide; search in this book
    [definition #2] (Streams Concepts and Administration; search in this book

message authentication code (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide; search in this book
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide; search in this book

message digest (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide; search in this book
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide; search in this book

message handler (Streams Concepts and Administration; search in this book

message rule (Streams Concepts and Administration; search in this book

messaging application programming interface (MAPI) (COM Automation Feature Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows; search in this book

messaging client (Streams Concepts and Administration; search in this book

metadata (Data Warehousing Guide; search in this book
    [definition #2] (Multimedia User's Guide; search in this book
    [definition #3] (Text Application Developer's Guide; search in this book
    [definition #4] (Warehouse Builder Concepts; search in this book

metadata encoding (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide; search in this book

metadata extraction (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide; search in this book

metadata schema (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide; search in this book

methods (Multimedia User's Guide; search in this book

metric (Quality of Service Management User's Guide; search in this book
    [definition #2] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide; search in this book

Microsoft .NET (Services for Microsoft Transaction Server Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows; search in this book

Microsoft .NET Framework Class Library (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide; search in this book
    [definition #2] (Extensions for .NET Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows; search in this book

Microsoft Active Directory (Net Services Administrator's Guide; search in this book
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference; search in this book

Microsoft application demo (Services for Microsoft Transaction Server Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows; search in this book

Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) (Services for Microsoft Transaction Server Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows; search in this book

Microsoft Management Console (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows; search in this book

Microsoft Transaction Server (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows; search in this book
    [definition #2] (Services for Microsoft Transaction Server Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows; search in this book

Microsoft Windows NT native authentication (Net Services Administrator's Guide; search in this book
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference; search in this book

migrate (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows; search in this book

min-max normalization (Data Mining Concepts; search in this book

minimum bounding rectangle (MBR) (Spatial Developer's Guide; search in this book

Minimum Description Length (Data Mining Concepts; search in this book

minimum downtime patching (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide; search in this book

mining function (Data Mining Concepts; search in this book

mining model (Data Mining Concepts; search in this book

mining object (Data Mining Concepts; search in this book

mining result (Data Mining Concepts; search in this book

mirroring (Performance Tuning Guide; search in this book
    [definition #2] (Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide; search in this book
    [definition #3] (Backup and Recovery User's Guide; search in this book

missing value (Data Mining Concepts; search in this book

mixed query (Text Application Developer's Guide; search in this book

model (Data Mining Concepts; search in this book
    [definition #2] (Data Warehousing Guide; search in this book
    [definition #3] (OLAP User's Guide; search in this book
    [definition #4] (Semantic Technologies Developer's Guide; search in this book

module (Quality of Service Management User's Guide; search in this book
    [definition #2] (Warehouse Builder Concepts; search in this book

monolingual linguistic sort (Globalization Support Guide; search in this book

monolingual support (Globalization Support Guide; search in this book

mount (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows; search in this book

mounted database (Concepts; search in this book

MTBF (Performance Tuning Guide; search in this book

MTS (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows; search in this book

mtssys (Services for Microsoft Transaction Server Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows; search in this book

MTTR (Backup and Recovery User's Guide; search in this book

multi-record case (Data Mining Concepts; search in this book

multibyte (Globalization Support Guide; search in this book

multibyte character (Globalization Support Guide; search in this book

multibyte character string (Globalization Support Guide; search in this book

multicast (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide; search in this book

multicast Domain Name Server (mDNS) (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide; search in this book

multidimensional data (Spatial Developer's Guide; search in this book

multilevel collection type (Object-Relational Developer's Guide; search in this book

multiline string (Spatial Developer's Guide; search in this book

multilingual linguistic sort (Globalization Support Guide; search in this book

Multimedia (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide; search in this book

multiple Oracle homes (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows; search in this book

multiplexed backup set (Backup and Recovery User's Guide; search in this book

multiplexing (Backup and Recovery User's Guide; search in this book

multipolygon (Spatial Developer's Guide; search in this book

multisection backup (Backup and Recovery User's Guide; search in this book

multiset operators (Object-Relational Developer's Guide; search in this book

multithreading (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide; search in this book