ACFS

This stands for ASM Cluster File System

ADG

This stands for Active Data Guard

AES

This stands for Advanced Encryption Security

API

This stands for application program interface

ASCII

This stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASM

This stands for Automatic Storage Management

AWR

This stands for Automatic Workload Repository

AWS

This stands for Amazon Web Services

BI

This stands for business intelligence

BR

This stands for bounded recovery

CBO

This stands for cost-based optimizer

CDB

This stands for container database

CDC

This stands for changed data capture

CDD

This stands for Changed Data Delivery

CDR

This stands for Conflict Detection and Resolution

CLS

This stands for Command-level security

CRS

This stands for Cluster Ready Services

CSN

This stands for Commit Sequence Number

CTAS

This stands for Create Table As Select

DBFS

This stands for Database File System

DDL

This stands for Data Definition Language

DML

This stands for Data Manipulation Language

DNS

This stands for Domain Name Service

DR

This stands for disaster recovery

EDA

This stands for Event-driven architecture

EHCC

This stands for Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression

E-LT

This stands for Extract Load and Transform

EMI

This stands for Event Marker Interface

ETL

This stands for Extract Transform and Load

FRA

This stands for fast recovery area

FSFO

This stands for Fast-Start Failover

FTS

This stands for full table scan

FUSE

This stands for Filesystem in Userspace

Gbit/s

This stands for Gigabits per second

GB

This stands for Gigabytes

GGSCI

This stands for the GoldenGate Software Command Interpreter

GI

This stands for Grid Infrastructure

HA

This stands for high availability

HBA

This stands for host bus adapter

ICMP

This stands for Internet Control Message Protocol

JDBC

This stands for Java Database Connectivity

JMX

This stands for Java Management Extensions

KM

This stands for Knowledge Module

LCR

This stands for logical change record

LSO

This stands for large segment offload

LUN

This stands for logical unit number

MAA

This stands for Maximum Availability Architecture

MB

This stands for Megabytes

ME

This stands for Metric Extension

MOS

This stands for My Oracle Support

NFR

This stands for non-functional requirements

NFS

This stands for Network File System

NIC

This stands for network interface card

OCFS2

This stands for Oracle Cluster File System #2

OCI

This stands for Oracle Call Interface

OCR

This stands for Oracle Cluster Registry

ODI

This stands for Oracle Data Integrator

OEM

This stands for Oracle Enterprise Manager

OGG

This stands for Oracle GoldenGate

OLAP

This stands for Online Analytical Processing

OLB

This stands for Oracle Large Objects

OLE

This stands for Object Linking and Embedding

OLTP

This stands for online transactional processing

OPS

This stands for Oracle Parallel Server

OS

This stands for Operating System

OTN

This stands for Oracle Technology Network

OUI

This stands for Oracle Universal Installer

OWB

This stands for Oracle Warehouse Builder

PaaS

This stands for Platform as a Service

PCIe

This stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect Express

PDB

This stands for pluggable database

PITR

This stands for point-in-time recovery

RAC

This stands for Real Application Clusters

RAID

This stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RBA

This stands for relative byte address

RDBMS

This stands for Relational Database Management System

RDS

This stands for Relational Database Services

RHEL

This stands for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

RMAN

This stands for Oracle Recovery Manager

RPM

This stands for Red Hat Package Manager

SaaS

This stands for Software as a Service

SAN

This stands for storage area network

SCAN

This stands for Single Client Access Name

SCN

This stands for system change number

SLA

This stands for service level agreement

SNMP

This stands for Simple Network Management Protocol

SOA

This stands for service-oriented architecture

SQL

This stands for Structured Query Language

SSD

This stands for solid-state devices

SSH

This stands for secure shell

SSL

This stands for Secure Socket Layer

SSO

This stands for single sign-on

TCP/IP

This stands for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TNS

This stands for Transparent Network Substrate

TSO

This stands for TCP segmentation offload

UAT

This stands for User Acceptance Testing

UDM

This stands for User Defined Metric

VIP

This stands for virtual IP

VM

This stands for virtual machine

WAN

This stands for wide area network

XAG

This stands for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Bundled Agents