Re: O kernel

From: HansF <News.Hans_at_telus.net>
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 19:12:25 GMT
Message-Id: <pan.2005.10.08.19.11.09.228449@telus.net>

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 06:26:05 -0700, nick interested us by writing:

> Can someone tell me what is meant by the "Oracle Kernel" ?
>

Along with all the other wonderful documentation Oracle provides at http://docs.oracle.com, they also have a glossary. From the Oracle9iR2 glossary

"
kernel

In the context of databases, the set of foreground and background processes that implement a database.
"

Explanation of the terms database, foreground and background processes can be found in the ORacle Database Concepts manual.

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