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Oracle Database Master Glossary: B
11g Release 2 (11.2)

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background process (Concepts)

backup (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

backup and recovery (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

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

backup encryption (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

backup instance (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

backup mode (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

backup optimization (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

backup path (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

backup piece (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

backup point (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

backup retention policy (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

backup set (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

backup undo optimization (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

backup window (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

backup-based duplication (Backup and Recovery User'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 User's Guide)

base measure (OLAP User's Guide)

base recovery catalog (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

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

BASIC_SECTION_GROUP (Text Application Developer's Guide)

batch geocoding (Spatial Developer's Guide)

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

bidirectional transmit (In-Memory Database Cache User's Guide)

binary compression (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

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

Binary Large Object (BLOB) (Object-Relational Developer's Guide)
    [definition #2] (SecureFiles and Large Objects Developer's Guide)

binary sorting (Globalization Support Guide)

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

bind variable (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Performance Tuning Guide)

binning (Data Mining Concepts)

bitmap index (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

bitmap merge (Concepts)

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

block (Performance Tuning Guide)

block change tracking (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

block change tracking file (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

block header (Concepts)

block media recovery (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

block overhead (Concepts)

bottleneck (Performance Tuning Guide)

boundary (Spatial Developer's Guide)

breaking a mirror (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

broadcast (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide)

broker (Data Guard Broker)

broker configuration (Data Guard Broker)

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

buffer pool (Performance Tuning Guide)

buffered LCR (Streams Concepts and Administration)

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

buffered user message (Streams Concepts and Administration)

build data (Data Mining Concepts)

build settings (Data Mining Concepts)

builder server (Streams Concepts and Administration)

business impact analysis (High Availability Overview)

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

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

bystander standby database (Data Guard Broker)

byte semantics (Globalization Support Guide)