Enterprise JavaBeans A Java standard for creating reusable server components for building applications. They facilitate writing code that accesses data in a database. A special database object that makes finding information in a database table much faster by storing pointers to where needed data resides on-disk.
Indexes are essential for good database performance.
Intraquery parallelism Using more than one CPU to execute a single database query. A database setting that defines the extent to which simultaneous users of the database can affect each other's work. Join The process by which you combine information from two tables by matching data in two similar columns. It has extensions for OLAP servers as well as special support for multimedia data. A program running in the database that can take complex actions based on the inputs you send it.