Database applications

Database applications

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

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Character encoding scheme

Software; Database applications

A rule that assigns numbers (character codes) to all characters in a character set. Encoding scheme, encoding method, and encoding also mean character encoding scheme.

The encoded character set used by the client. A client character set can differ from the server character set. The server character set is called the database character set. If the client character ...

Code point

Software; Database applications

The numeric representation of a character in a character set. For example, the code point of A in the ASCII character set is 0x41. The code point of a character is also called the encoded value of a ...

Code unit

Software; Database applications

The unit of encoded text for processing and interchange. The size of the code unit varies depending on the character encoding scheme. In most character encodings, a code unit is 1 byte. Important ...

Data scanning

Software; Database applications

The process of identifying potential problems with character set conversion and truncation of data before migrating the database character set.

Database character set

Software; Database applications

The encoded character set that is used to store text in the database. This includes CHAR, VARCHAR2, LONG, and fixed-width CLOB column values and all SQL and PL/SQL text.