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

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Glossary Definitions

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

page (OLAP User's Guide)

page space (OLAP User's Guide)

paging (Performance Tuning Guide)

parallel execution (Data Warehousing Guide)

parallel recovery (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

parallelism (Data Warehousing Guide)

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

parent element (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

parent incarnation (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

parent workspace (Workspace Manager Developer's Guide)

parent-child relation (OLAP User's Guide)

parse (Performance Tuning Guide)

parse call (Performance Tuning Guide)

Parsed Character Data (PCDATA) (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

parser (Performance Tuning Guide)

partial resynchronization (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

partition (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #3] (Storage Administrator's Guide)

password file (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

Password-Accessible Domains List (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

path name (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

PATH_SECTION_GROUP (Text Application Developer's Guide)

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

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

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

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

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

persistent LCR (Streams Concepts and Administration)

persistent LOB (SecureFiles and Large Objects Developer's Guide)

persistent queue (Streams Concepts and Administration)

persistent user message (Streams Concepts and Administration)

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

phantom (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

physical backup (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

physical corruption (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)
    [definition #2] (High Availability Overview)

physical data set (Data Mining Concepts)

physical schema (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

physical standby database (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Data Guard Broker)

ping (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

pinning (Object-Relational Developer's Guide)

PIO (Performance Tuning Guide)

pivoting (Data Warehousing Guide)

PKCS #10 (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

PKCS #11 (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

PKCS #12 (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

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

PL/SQL (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Object-Relational Developer's Guide)

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

plan generator (Performance Tuning Guide)

pluggable mapping (Warehouse Builder Concepts)

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

point-in-time recovery (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

policy managed (Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide)

policy-managed database (2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide)

polygon (Spatial Developer's Guide)

polymorphism (Object-Relational Developer's Guide)

port number (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

portlets (Multimedia User's Guide)

positive rule set (Streams Concepts and Administration)

positive target value (Data Mining Concepts)

precalculate (OLAP User's Guide)

precommit handler (Streams Concepts and Administration)

precompiler (Concepts)

precompute (OLAP User's Guide)

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

predictive model (Data Mining Concepts)

predictor (Data Mining Concepts)

preference (Text Application Developer's Guide)

preference document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

prepared data (Data Mining Concepts)

prepared table (Streams Concepts and Administration)

preparer server (Streams Concepts and Administration)

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

primary database (Data Guard Broker)

primary filter (Spatial Developer's Guide)

primary key (Concepts)
    [definition #2] (Object-Relational Developer's Guide)

primary key constraint (Concepts)

principal (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

printjoin (Text Application Developer's Guide)

prior probabilities (Data Mining Concepts)

priors (Data Mining Concepts)

private attributes (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

private database link (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

private dictionary document (Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide)

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

private SQL area (Concepts)

privilege (Concepts)

privileges (Workspace Manager Developer's Guide)

problem (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

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

procedure DML handler (Streams Concepts and Administration)

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

process flow (Warehouse Builder Concepts)

process flow module (Warehouse Builder Concepts)

process flow package (Warehouse Builder Concepts)

producer (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide)

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

profiles (Data Guard Broker)

program global area (PGA) (Concepts)

project (Warehouse Builder Concepts)

projected coordinates (Spatial Developer's Guide)

projection (Spatial Developer's Guide)

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

propagate (In-Memory Database Cache User's Guide)
    [definition #2] (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

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

propagation job (Streams Concepts and Administration)

propagation schedule (Streams Concepts and Administration)

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

protocol address (Database Installation Guide for Linux)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Net Services Reference)

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

protocol message logging (TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide)

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

protocols (Multimedia User's Guide)

proximity (Spatial Developer's Guide)

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

proxy copy (Backup and Recovery User's Guide)

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

pseudocolumn (Concepts)

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

public and private key pair (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Security Administrator's Guide)

public database link (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

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

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

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

publication (Data Warehousing Guide)

publication ID (Data Warehousing Guide)

publish/subscribe (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide)

publisher (Data Warehousing Guide)

purge job (Security Guide)