JDBC Type 4 Driver 2.0 Programmer's Reference (SQL/MX 2.x)

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 Sun Microsystems, 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 partitions.
class path
The location where the Java VM and other Java programs that are located in the directory search
for class libraries (such as classes.zip). Include the t4sqlmx.jar file in your class path.
The t4sqlmx.jar file is in the location where you installed this product. You can set the class
path explicitly or with the CLASSPATH environment variable.
client
A software process, hardware device, or combination of the two that requests services from a