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  2. Oracle metadata - Wikipedia

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    Oracle Database provides information about all of the tables, views, columns, and procedures in a database. This information about information is known as metadata. [1] It is stored in two locations: data dictionary tables (accessed via built-in views) and a metadata registry.

  3. Database index - Wikipedia

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    An index normally includes a "key" or direct link to the original row of data from which it was copied, to allow the complete row to be retrieved efficiently. Some databases extend the power of indexing by letting developers create indexes on column values that have been transformed by functions or expressions.

  4. List of column-oriented DBMSes - Wikipedia

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    An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS Databend Rust An elastic and reliable Serverless Data Warehouse InfluxDB: Rust Time series database: Greenplum Database C Support and extensions available from VMware. MapD: C++ MariaDB ColumnStore C & C++ Formerly Calpont InfiniDB: Metakit: C++ MonetDB: C

  5. Database object - Wikipedia

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    Indexes, a data structure providing faster queries (at the expense of slower writing and storage to maintain the index structure) Views, a virtual table that is made as it is queried; Synonyms, alternate names for a table, view, sequence or other object in a database; Stored procedures and user-defined functions

  6. Virtual column - Wikipedia

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    In relational databases a virtual column is a table column whose value(s) is automatically computed using other columns values, or another deterministic expression. Virtual columns are defined of SQL:2003 as Generated Column, [1] and are only implemented by some DBMSs, like MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Firebird (database server) (COMPUTED BY syntax).

  7. Database schema - Wikipedia

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    In a relational database, the schema defines the tables, fields, relationships, views, indexes, packages, procedures, functions, queues, triggers, types, sequences, materialized views, synonyms, database links, directories, XML schemas, and other elements. A database generally stores its schema in a data dictionary. Although a schema is defined ...

  8. Materialized view - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a materialized view is a database object that contains the results of a query.For example, it may be a local copy of data located remotely, or may be a subset of the rows and/or columns of a table or join result, or may be a summary using an aggregate function.

  9. Comparison of relational database management systems - Wikipedia

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    Note (5): InnoDB automatically generates adaptive hash index [125] entries as needed. Note (6): Can be implemented using Function-based Indexes in Oracle 8i and higher, but the function needs to be used in the sql for the index to be used. Note (7): A PostgreSQL functional index can be used to reverse the order of a field.