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Software that facilitates communication between a human user and a database.

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Software; Database applications

The operating system environmental variable that identifies the location of the Oracle database installation for use by applications.

Accent

Software; Database applications

A mark that changes the sound of a character. Because the common meaning of accent is associated with the stress or prominence of the character’s sound, the preferred word in Oracle Database ...

Accent-insensitive linguistic sort

Software; Database applications

A linguistic sort that uses information only about base letters, not diacritics or case.

AL16UTF16

Software; Database applications

The default Oracle character set for the SQL NCHAR data type, which is used for the national character set. It encodes Unicode data in the UTF-16 encoding.

AL32UTF8

Software; Database applications

An Oracle character set for the SQL CHAR data type, which is used for the database character set. It encodes Unicode data in the UTF-8 encoding.

Base letter

Software; Database applications

A character without diacritics. For example, the base letter for a, A, ä, and Ä is a.

Binary sorting

Software; Database applications

Ordering character strings based on their binary coded values.

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