component availability, 256
Availability page, 130
AWR (Automatic Workload
Repository), 124, 156
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B*-tree index, 92
background processes, instances, 52
Backup Solutions Program (BSP), 136
backups, 24, 135, 149, 172, 275
data warehouses, 237
databases, isolation from, 162
Oracle types, 275
overview, 135
planning, 275
preparations essential for recovery, 133
recovery, using in, 276
testing, 135, 275
third-party utilities, 135
types of, 134
BAM (Business Activity Monitoring), 16, 346
base tables, 91, 144
BEA Tuxedo TP monitor, 309
BFILE datatype, 87
bigfiles, 35
Binary Large Object (BLOB), 320
binary XML, 235
BINARY_DOUBLE, 85
BINARY_FLOAT, 85
bind
phase, 214
variables, 214
bitmap indexes, 21, 94, 230
BLOB (Binary Large Object), 320
BLOB datatype, 87
Index | 367
block-range parallelism, 170
affected operations, 172
affected query processes, 173
I/O, impact on, 170
inserts, 175
partitioned tables, 171
scaling, 170
blocks, size of, 40
bound plans, 212
BPEL (Business Process Engineering
Language), 345
BPEL Process Manager Option, 16
branch nodes, B*-tree index, 92
BSP (Backup Solutions Program)
products, 136
buffer caches
defined, 50
performance and, 177
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