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Database applications
Software that facilitates communication between a human user and a database.
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Meta object facility (MOF)
Software; Database applications
The Object Management Group's (OMG's) adopted standard for modelling metadata and representing it as CORBA objects.
Common object request broker architecture (CORBA)
Software; Database applications
A language-independent distributed object model specified by the Object Management Group (OMG).
Summary table
Software; Database applications
A data structure in a data warehouse that contains summarized, or aggregated, facts.
Common warehouse metadata interchange (CWMI)
Software; Database applications
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 ...
Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)
Software; Database applications
A shared-everything hardware and software architecture where memory and disc controllers are accessible to all CPUs.
Metalayer
Software; Database applications
An architectural component of a data warehouse that resides between the warehouse data and the user and contains metadata.
Common warehouse model (CWM)
Software; Database applications
Oracle's open standard for data warehousing. CWM integrates all aspects of warehousing, incorporating both technical and business metadata.
