JDBC Type 4 Driver Programmer's Reference for SQL/MX Release 3.1 (H06.23+, J06.12+)

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A
abstract class
In Java, a class designed only as a parent from which subclasses can be derived, which is not itself suitable for instantiation. An abstract
class is often used to "abstract out" incomplete sets of features, which can then be shared by a group of sibling subclasses that add
different variations of the missing pieces.
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
The predominant character set encoding of present-day computers. ASCII uses 7 bits for each character. It does not include accented
letters or any other letter forms not used in English (such as the German sharp-S or the Norwegian ae-ligature). Compare with
Unicode.
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
The United States government body responsible for approving US standards in many areas, including computers and communications.
ANSI is a member of
ISO. ANSI sells ANSI and ISO (international) standards.
ANSI
See American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
API
See application program interface (API).
application program
One of the following:
A software program written for or by a user for a specific purpose
A computer program that performs a data processing function rather than a control function
application program interface (API)
A set of functions or procedures that are called by an
application program to communicate with other software components.
ASCII
See American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII).
autocommit mode
A mode in which a JDBC driver automatically commits a transaction without the programmer's calling commit().
B
base table
A table that has physical existence: that is, a table stored in a file.
BLOB
Short for Binary Large OBject, a collection of binary data stored as a single entity in a database management system. These entities are
primarily used to hold multimedia objects such as images, videos, and sound. They can also be used to store programs or even
fragments of code. A Java
Blob object (Java type, java.sql.Blob) corresponds to the SQL BLOB data type.
branded
A
Java virtual machine that Oracle, Inc. has certified as conformant.
browser
A program that allows you to read hypertext. The browser gives some means of viewing the contents of nodes and of navigating from
one node to another. Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, NCSA Mosaic, Lynx, and W3 are examples for browsers for the
WWW.
They act as
clients to remote servers.
bytecode
The code that javac, the Java compiler, produces. When the Java virtual machine loads this code, it either interprets it or compiles it.
C
catalog
In SQL/MP and SQL/MX, a set of tables containing the descriptions of SQL objects such as tables, views, columns, indexes, files, and