Beginning Oracle Database 11g Administration From Novice to Professional

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CHAPTER 8 USER MANAGEMENT AND DATA LOADING
Tip Definitions of Oracle terms and links to the relevant sections of the reference manuals can be found
in the Master Glossary available at . Try using the master
glossary to find the meanings of the terms you see in Listing 8-2.
Some of the objects in a schema, such as tables and indexes, represent blocks of storage;
the others are actually definitions that are stored in tables. For example,
is simply a definition stored in the table in the schema. An object that represents
blocks of storage is called a segment. Listing 8-3 shows that only a few of the object types
displayed in Listing 8-2 actually represent blocks of storage; the others are only definitions
stored in tables.
Listing 8-3. Segment Types Found in the Schema