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Oracle Database Master Glossary: S
11g Release 1 (11.1)

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Safe Type Mapping (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide)

salt (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Security Guide)

sample (Data Mining Concepts)

savepoint (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Workspace Manager Developer's Guide)

SAX (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

SBT (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

scalability (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

scale (Spatial Developer's Guide)

scale normalization (Data Mining Concepts)

schema (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Data Mining Concepts)
    [definition #4] (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #5] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #6] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

schema evolution (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

schema mapping (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

schema rule (Streams Concepts and Administration)

schema validation (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

score (Data Mining Concepts)

script (Globalization Support Guide)

SDATA section (Text Application Developer's Guide)

SDP protocol (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

secondary filter (Spatial Developer's Guide)

section (Text Application Developer's Guide)

section group (Text Application Developer's Guide)

secure application role (Security Guide)

Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

secure queue (Streams Concepts and Administration)

Secure Shell (SSH) (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Net Services Reference)
    [definition #5] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

SECUREFILE (SecureFiles and Large Objects Developer's Guide)

security role (OLAP User's Guide)

segment (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Performance Tuning Guide)

semi-additive (Data Warehousing Guide)

sequence (Concepts)

server (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

Server Control (SRVCTL) Utility (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

server parameter file (Concepts)

server process (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Net Services Reference)

Server-Side Include (SSI) (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

service (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Net Services Reference)

service handler (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

service level agreement (SLA) (Concepts)

service name (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Net Services Reference)

service object pair (SOP) (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

service object pair (SOP) class (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

service principal (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

service registration (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

service table (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

service ticket (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Security Guide)

services (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

servlet (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

session (Concepts)

session context (Workspace Manager Developer's Guide)

session data unit (SDU) (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

session key (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

session layer (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Net Services Reference)

session multiplexing (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

settings (Data Mining Concepts)

SGA (Performance Tuning Guide)

SGML (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

SHA (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

shadow copy (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

shape points (Spatial Developer's Guide)

shared everything (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

shared locking (Workspace Manager Developer's Guide)

shared pool (Concepts)

shared schema (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

shared server (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Net Services Reference)

shared server process (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

SID (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

SID_LIST_listener_name (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

Simple API for XML (SAX) (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

simple query (Performance Tuning Guide)

simple statement (Performance Tuning Guide)

single byte (Globalization Support Guide)

single key-pair wallet (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

single password authentication (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

single sign-on (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

single sign-on (SSO) (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

single-byte character (Globalization Support Guide)

single-byte character string (Globalization Support Guide)

single-record case (Data Mining Concepts)

singleton services (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

skip-level hierarchy (OLAP User's Guide)

skipjoin (Text Application Developer's Guide)

slice and dice (Data Warehousing Guide)

Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) (Storage Administrator's Guide)

smart card (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

snapshot control file (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

sniffer (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

snowflake schema (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #2] (OLAP User's Guide)

SOAP (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

solve specification (OLAP User's Guide)

solved data (OLAP User's Guide)

sort (Spatial Developer's Guide)

source (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #2] (OLAP User's Guide)

source database (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Streams Concepts and Administration)

source host (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

source platform (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

source queue (Streams Concepts and Administration)

source system (Data Warehousing Guide)

source tables (Data Warehousing Guide)

sparse data (Data Mining Concepts)

sparsity (OLAP User's Guide)

spatial (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial binning (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial correlation (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial data (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial data model (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial data structures (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial database (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial discretization (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial join (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial query (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatial reference system (Spatial Developer's Guide)

spatiotemporal data (Spatial Developer's Guide)

special section (Text Application Developer's Guide)

split (Data Mining Concepts)

split brain syndrome (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

split mirror backup (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

SQL (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

SQL Access Advisor (Data Warehousing Guide)

SQL Apply (Data Guard Broker)

SQL CHAR datatypes (Globalization Support Guide)

SQL Compiler (Performance Tuning Guide)

SQL NCHAR datatypes (Globalization Support Guide)

SQL Profile (Performance Tuning Guide)

SQL statements (identical) (Performance Tuning Guide)

SQL statements (similar) (Performance Tuning Guide)

SQL Trace (Performance Tuning Guide)

SQL Tuning Set (STS) (Performance Tuning Guide)

SQL*Loader (Performance Tuning Guide)
    [definition #2] (Spatial Developer's Guide)

SQL*Plus (Concepts)

SQL/XML (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

sqlnet.ora file (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Net Services Reference)

SSI (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

SSL (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)
    [definition #3] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

SSO (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

staging area (Data Warehousing Guide)

staging file (Data Warehousing Guide)

standard attributes (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

standard dictionary document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

standards conformance (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

standby database (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Data Guard Broker)

star query (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #2] (OLAP User's Guide)

star schema (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #2] (OLAP User's Guide)

start SCN (Streams Concepts and Administration)

startjoin (Text Application Developer's Guide)

Statspack (Performance Tuning Guide)

status (OLAP User's Guide)

stemming (Text Application Developer's Guide)

stop section (Text Application Developer's Guide)

stopclass (Text Application Developer's Guide)

stoplist (Text Application Developer's Guide)

stoptheme (Text Application Developer's Guide)

stopword (Text Application Developer's Guide)

Storage Area Network (SAN) (Storage Administrator's Guide)

stored function (Extensions for .NET Developer's Guide)

stored procedure (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Extensions for .NET Developer's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Provider for OLE DB Developer's Guide)

stored script (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

stratified sample (Data Mining Concepts)

striping (Performance Tuning Guide)
    [definition #2] (Storage Administrator's Guide)

Structured Generalized Markup Language (SGML) (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

Structured Query Language (SQL) (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

stylesheet (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

sub-lexer (Text Application Developer's Guide)

subject area (Data Warehousing Guide)

subscribers (Data Warehousing Guide)

subscription (Data Warehousing Guide)

subscription window (Data Warehousing Guide)

subset rule (Streams Concepts and Administration)

subtype (Concepts)

summary (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #2] (OLAP User's Guide)

Summary Advisor (Data Warehousing Guide)

supermodel (Data Mining Concepts)

supertype (Concepts)

supervised classification (Text Application Developer's Guide)

supervised learning (Data Mining Concepts)

supervised model (Data Mining Concepts)

supplemental log group (Streams Concepts and Administration)

supplemental logging (Streams Concepts and Administration)

supplementary characters (Globalization Support Guide)

support vector machine (Data Mining Concepts)

surrogate pairs (Globalization Support Guide)

SVM (Data Mining Concepts)

syllabary (Globalization Support Guide)

synchronous capture (Streams Concepts and Administration)

synchronous I/O (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

synonym (Concepts)

SYSDBA (Services for Microsoft Transaction Server Developer's Guide)

SYSOPER (Services for Microsoft Transaction Server Developer's Guide)

SYSTEM (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

system change number (SCN) (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

System Global Area (SGA) (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Net Services Reference)

system global area (SGA) (Concepts)

system identifier (SID) (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

system-created rule (Streams Concepts and Administration)

SYS_XMLAGG (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

SYS_XMLGEN (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)