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Oracle Database Master Glossary: N
10g Release 2 (10.2)

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NA value (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

naive bayes (Data Mining Concepts)

name-level locking (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

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

names.ora file (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

namespace (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Extensions for .NET Developer's Guide)

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

naming method (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Client Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #3] (Client Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows (64-Bit) on Intel Itanium)
    [definition #4] (Client Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows (x64))
    [definition #5] (Enterprise User Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #6] (Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #7] (Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows (64-Bit) on Intel Itanium)
    [definition #8] (Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows (x64))
    [definition #9] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #10] (Net Services Reference)

NAS (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

National Character Large Object (Application Developer's Guide - Large Objects)

national character large object (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference)

National Character Large Object (NCLOB) (Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Oracle Objects for OLE Developer's Guide)

national character set (Globalization Support Guide)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Administrator's Guide)

native access mode (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

NCLOB (Application Developer's Guide - Large Objects)
    [definition #2] (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference)

NDMP (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

NDMP access mode (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

negative rule set (Streams Concepts and Administration)

neighborhood influence (Spatial User's Guide and Reference)

nested table (Data Mining Concepts)

net service alias (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Net Services Reference)

net service name (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Client Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #3] (Client Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows (64-Bit) on Intel Itanium)
    [definition #4] (Client Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows (x64))
    [definition #5] (Enterprise User Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #6] (Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #7] (Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows (64-Bit) on Intel Itanium)
    [definition #8] (Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows (x64))
    [definition #9] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #10] (Net Services Reference)
    [definition #11] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #12] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows (64-Bit) on Intel Itanium)
    [definition #13] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows (x64))
    [definition #14] (Services for Microsoft Transaction Server Developer's Guide)

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

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

Network Attached Storage (NAS) (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)
    [definition #2] (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

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

network character set (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

network description file (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

network drive (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

network feature (Data Mining Concepts)

Network File System (NFS) (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

Network Information Service (NIS) (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

Network Interface (NI) (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

Network Interface Card (NIC) (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

network listener (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #3] (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #4] (Net Services Reference)
    [definition #5] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #6] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows (64-Bit) on Intel Itanium)
    [definition #7] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows (x64))

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

Network Program Interface (NPI) (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

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

network service (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows)
    [definition #2] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows (64-Bit) on Intel Itanium)
    [definition #3] (Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows (x64))

Network Services MIB (Enterprise Manager SNMP Support Reference Guide)

Network Session (NS) (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)

Network Time Protocol (NTP) (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)

NEWS_SECTION_GROUP (Text Application Developer's Guide)

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

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

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

NLB files (Globalization Support Guide)

NLS (Globalization Support Guide)

NLSRTL (Globalization Support Guide)

NLT files (Globalization Support Guide)

NMF (Data Mining Concepts)

no-rewind device (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

NOARCHIVELOG mode (Backup and Recovery Basics)

node (Net Services Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Net Services Reference)
    [definition #3] (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide)
    [definition #4] (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

non-negative matrix factorization (Data Mining Concepts)

non-repudiation (Advanced Security Administrator's Guide)
    [definition #2] (Enterprise User Administrator's Guide)

nonadditive (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #2] (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

noncircular reuse records (Backup and Recovery Basics)

nonequijoin (Performance Tuning Guide)

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

nontransactional (Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference)

nontransactional queue (Streams Concepts and Administration)

nonwriter site (Application Developer's Guide - Workspace Manager)

normalization (Data Mining Concepts)

normalize (Data Warehousing Guide)
    [definition #2] (OLAP Application Developer's Guide)

normalized word (Text Application Developer's Guide)

NOT NULL constraint (Concepts)

notation attribute declaration (XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide)

Notification Methods (Enterprise Manager Concepts)

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

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

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

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

NT File System (NTFS) (Secure Backup Administrator's Guide)

null string (Globalization Support Guide)

NULL value (Concepts)

NULL_SECTION_GROUP (Text Application Developer's Guide)

numerical attribute (Data Mining Concepts)