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Database applications
Software that facilitates communication between a human user and a database.
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ISO currency
Software; Database applications
The 3-letter abbreviation used to denote a local currency, based on the ISO 4217 standard. For example, USD represents the United States dollar.
ISO Latin1
Software; Database applications
The ISO 8859-1 character set standard. It is an 8-bit extension to ASCII that adds 128 characters that include the most common Latin characters used in Western Europe. The Oracle character set name ...
Length semantics
Software; Database applications
Length semantics determines how you treat the length of a character string. The length can be treated as a sequence of characters or bytes.
Linguistic sort
Software; Database applications
A ordering of strings based on requirements from a locale instead of the binary representation of the strings.
Locale
Software; Database applications
A collection of information about the linguistic and cultural preferences from a particular region. Typically, a locale consists of language, territory, character set, linguistic, and calendar ...
Monolingual linguistic sort
Software; Database applications
An Oracle sort that has two levels of comparison for strings. Most European languages can be sorted with a monolingual sort, but it is inadequate for Asian languages.
Multibyte
Software; Database applications
Two or more bytes. When character codes are assigned to all characters in a specific language or a group of languages, one byte (8 bits) can represent 256 different characters. Two bytes (16 bits) ...
