Similar to Windows NT services. A unique name for an Oracle8 database instance. The formal name for the Oracle8 database. The precompiler takes this program as input and produces as output another program, in the same 3GL, in which all the embedded SQL calls are translated into host language procedure calls. This resulting program can be compiled, linked, and executed.
Some operating systems use the terms job or task .
A process normally has its own private memory area in which it runs. One of five background tasks used by an Oracle instance. PMON performs recovery when a process accessing a database terminates abnormally. A limit on a resource, such as a limit on the amount of database storage used by a database user. A DBA can set tablespace quotas for each Oracle user name.