ACRONYM MEANING

ADF Application Developer Framework

ASH Active Session History

ASM Automatic Storage Management

ASMM Automatic Shared Memory Management

ASO Advanced Security Option

ASSM Automatic Segment Space Management

AWR Automatic Workload Repository

CBO Cost Based Optimizer

DAS Delegated Administration Services

DBA Data Block Address

DBA Database Administrator

DIP Directory Integration Platform

EBS Oracle E-Business Suite

ESB Enterprise Service Bus

ESSO Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-On Suite

IOT Index-Organized Table

JDE E1 JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

OAM Oracle Access Manager

OAAM Oracle Adaptive Access Manager

OCI Oracle Call Interface

OCCI Oracle C++ Call Interface

ODCI Oracle Data Cartridge Interface

OID Oracle Internet Directory

OIF Oracle Identity Federation

OIM Oracle Identity Manager

OEL Oracle Enterprise Linux

 OEM Oracle Enterprise Manager

OES Oracle Entitlement Server

OPI Oracle Programmatic Interface

OSES Oracle Secure Enterprise Search

OSSO Oracle Single Sign-On

OVD Oracle Virtual Directory

OWSM Oracle Web Services Manager

PGA Program Global Area

RAC Real Application Clusters

RAT Real Application Testing

SCN System Change Number

SGA Shared Global Area

SID System IDentifier

SID Session Identifier

SOA Service Oriented Architecture

SSA Self Service Application(s)

SSO Single Sign-On

SQL Structured Query Language

TCA Touch Count Algorithm

TNS Transparent Network Substrate

TKPROF Transient Kernel Profile

TTC Two-Task Common

TTI Two-Task Interface

UGA User Global Area

UPI User Programmatic Interface

SPA SQL Performance Analyzer

STS SQL Tuning Set

STO SQL Tuning Optimizer

SAA SQL Access Advisor

DG Data Guard

OPAS Online Performance Appraisal System

 DESCRIPTION

ADF is a productivity layer for J2EE developers which simplifies application-building as a set of business services

ASH consists of session performance view snapshots over time, which are often used to sim

The volume manager provided by Oracle for database files such as datafiles, redo logs, backu
The collective name for the dynamic memory allocation technologies added in Oracle 9i and improved with each subsequen
required.
ASO is an encryption option used to safeguard sensitive data and address regulatory com
A new way Oracle manages space inside a block. Instead of trying to track the exact space inside a block, Oracle marks the blo
the need of a freelist.
AWR is a built-in repository which persists system workload information to disk at

For a given query, the CBO calculates the cost (in system resources) of several possible execution plans a

Part of legacy OID installation (10g and earlier) providing basic directory management tools for user passwo

Address of an Oracle Datablock for access purposes.

The person (team) responsible for maintaining the databases.

Part of Oracle Internet Directory (OID) product. Provides directory synchronization tools for synching OID to non-Oracle re

Oracle's original application suite

Standard Acronym. Also name of one of the Oracle 10g ESBs: Oracle

Extends Oracle Identity Management's single sign-on capability to non-web a

IOTs are indexed tables whose data is stored as a B*Tree index struct

ERP system, (software acquired by Oracle in 2005 & corporate acquisition comple
Oracle Access Manager (formerly COREid acquired from Oblix) is used for authentication and web single sign-on (SSO). Versio
(OAM Identity) not to be confused with Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) or legacy Oracle Identity Man
OAAM (acquired with purchase of Bharosa) provides soft multi-factor authentication (OAAM Adaptive Strong Authenticator
analysis (OAAM Adaptive Risk Manager or OAAM-ARM).
OCI is a C-language data access API which provides a low-level programmatic interface t

OCCI is an object-oriented data access API for C++ which provides a programmatic interfac

ODCI extends the capabilities of the Oracle server by taking advantage of the Oracle Extensib
Oracle's LDAP-enabled directory server product. Part of Oracle's "legacy" Identity Management. Legacy IDM refers to an insta
option for "Identity Management" installed OID (including DIP and DAS) a
OIF (composed of Oblix SHAREid and Phaos offerings) is Oracle's product for browser-based cross-domain SSO using stan

OIM (formerly Xellerate, acquired with purchase of Thor Technologies) is Oracle's strategic product for user acc

Oracle's Linux distribution

 OEM is a comprehensive management tool which provides a top-to-bottom monitoring sol

OES (acquired with purchase of BEA, formerly AquaLogic Entitlement Server) provides fine-grained authorization (FGA

The server-side complement to OCI.

Secure search access to all of your organization's data sources

Oracle's in-house developed web single sign-on product. Required for many Oracle application integrations for interoperab
systems. OSSO is expected to be replaced by OAM 11g.
OVE (acquired with purchase of OctetString) provides directory virtualization and LDAP

Oracle product for web-services security. Part of the SOA suite.

Private memory area for program use

Multiple interconnected computers or servers that appear as if they are one server to end use

RAT is a database option used to capture, analyze, and replay database transactions in order to test wor

The SCN is a unique, monotonically incremented number used internally by Oracle to provide system-wide version

Shared Memory area for Oracle instance structures

Uniquely identifies an Oracle database instance

Identifies an Oracle Session

Application suite at Oracle with numerous component products.

Oracle acronym

Method of access control that enables a user to authenticate once and gain access to the resources

The data retrieval and manipulation language of the Oracle databa

TCA is a buffer-cache management algorithm used by Oracle to maximize cach

A foundation technology, built into the Oracle Net foundation layer that works with any standa

A utility available in Oracle installations that converts the trace files (generated by session tracing) to a human r

TTC is Oracle's implementation of the OSI presentation layer which provides character set and data type c

TTI consists of a network interface to specific server-side functionali

A memory region in the large pool which is used for user sessions

UPI is an undocumented C-language data access API used by Oracle to interface with
A tool in the Real Application Testing family in Oracle 11g, that allows to replay a specified set of SQLs captured earlier to ga
SPA, you can accurately predict the impact of index building, database parameter chang
A group of SQL statements with a given name. STS stores these statements even if they are aged out of the shared
 The tool (inside Oracle Database) that inspects the SQL statements for possible perform
The tool inside Oracle Database that analyzes the SQL statement(s) for possible performance enhancemnt. It's little different f
partitioning are provided here.
The overall term or infrastructure for Oracle Standby Database management, both logical and physical. D

Appraisal Tool used in Self Service e-Biz