HP B6960-96035 - Manual (Page 395)

TNSNAMES.ORA (Oracle and SAP R/3 specific term) A network configuration
file that contains connect descriptors mapped to service names.
The file may be maintained centrally or locally, for use by all
or individual clients.
transaction A mechanism for ensuring that a set of actions is treated as a
single unit of work. Databases use transactions to keep track of
database changes.
transaction backup Transaction backups generally use fewer resources than
database backups, so they can be created more frequently than
database backups. By applying transaction backups, you can
recover the database to a specific point in time prior to when
a problem occurred.
transaction backup (Sybase and SQL specific term) A backup of the transaction log
providing a record of changes made since the last full or
transaction backup.
transaction log
backup Transaction log backups generally use fewer resources than
database backups so they can be created more frequently than
database backups. By applying transaction log backups, you
can recover the database to a specific point in time.
transaction log
files Files that record transactions of the database modifications, and
provide fault tolerance in case of a database disaster.
transaction logs (Data Protector specific term) Keep track of IDB changes. The
archiving of transaction logs should be enabled to prevent you
from losing the transaction log files that are created after the
last IDB backup and are necessary for IDB recovery.
transaction log
table (Sybase specific term) A system table in which all changes to
the database are automatically recorded.
transportable
snapshot (Microsoft VSS specific term) A shadow copy that is created on
the application system and can be presented to the backup
system where a backup can be performed.
See also
Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) .
TSANDS.CFG file (Novell NetWare specific term) A file that allows you to specify
the names of containers where you want backups to begin. It
is a text file located in the SYS:SYSTEM\TSA directory on the
server where TSANDS.NLM is loaded.
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