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Oracle Database Master Glossary: B
10g Release 2 (10.2)

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background process (Concepts)

backup (Backup and Recovery Basics)
    [definition #2] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit))
    [definition #3] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows (64-Bit) on Intel Itanium)
    [definition #4] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows (x64))

backup and recovery (Backup and Recovery Basics)

backup control file (Backup and Recovery Basics)

Backup Description File (BDF) (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

backup device (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

backup encryption (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

backup ID (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

backup image (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

backup image file (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

backup image label (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

backup job (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

backup level (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

backup mode (Backup and Recovery Basics)

backup operation (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

backup piece (Backup and Recovery Basics)
    [definition #2] (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

backup request (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

backup retention policy (Backup and Recovery Basics)

backup schedule (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

backup section (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

backup set (Backup and Recovery Basics)

backup transcript (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

backup window (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

backup, whole database (Backup and Recovery Basics)

barcode (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

barrier transaction (Streams Concepts and Administration)

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

base letter (Globalization Support Guide)

base level data (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

base measure (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

base-letter conversion (Text Application Developer's Guide)

BASIC_SECTION_GROUP (Text Application Developer's Guide)

batch geocoding (Spatial User's Guide and Reference)

Beacon (Enterprise Manager Concepts)

BEFORE trigger (Concepts)

BFILE (Application Developer's Guide - Large Objects)
    [definition #2] (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference)

BFILES (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide)

BFILEs (Oracle Objects for OLE Developer's Guide)

binary compression (Backup and Recovery Basics)

binary large object (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference)

Binary Large Object (BLOB) (Application Developer's Guide - Large Objects)
    [definition #2] (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Oracle Objects for OLE Developer's Guide)

binary sorting (Globalization Support Guide)

bind variable (Performance Tuning Guide)

binning (Data Mining Concepts)

blackout (Enterprise Manager Concepts)

BLOB (Application Developer's Guide - Large Objects)
    [definition #2] (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference)
    [definition #3] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

block (Performance Tuning Guide)

block change tracking (Backup and Recovery Basics)

block media recovery (Backup and Recovery Basics)

blocking factor (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

bottleneck (Performance Tuning Guide)

boundary (Spatial User's Guide and Reference)

broadcast (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference)

broker (Data Guard Broker)

broker configuration (Data Guard Broker)

buffer (Performance Tuning Guide)

buffer cache (Concepts)

buffer pool (Performance Tuning Guide)

buffered queue (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference)
    [definition #2] (Streams Concepts and Administration)

build settings (Data Mining Concepts)

builder server (Streams Concepts and Administration)

bus (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

Business-to-Business (B2B) (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

Business-to-Consumer (B2C) (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

busy file (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

byte semantics (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Globalization Support Guide)