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- cardinality
The number of distinct values in a column or a table.
- Cartesian product
The query result produced when a join condition is omitted from a query that references two or more tables in the FROM clause.
- change vectors
A description of a change made to a single block in the database.
- checkpoint
An event during which the dirty data block buffers are flushed to disk and database files are updated to reflect this action. The database is put into a consistent state.
- checkpoint (CKPT) process
The Oracle background process that updates the control file and the datafile headers to reflect the last successful transaction by recording the last System Change Number (SCN).
- CKPT
See checkpoint (CKPT) process.
- column
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