- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 318110
- Number of blossaries: 26
- Company Profile:
An American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing.
The name of a set of members in a dimension hierarchy such that all members of the set are at the same distance from the root of the hierarchy. For example, a time hierarchy may contain the levels Year, Month, and Day.
Industry:Computer
During software upgrades, the license for the product that is already installed on the machine, i.e. the version being upgraded.
Industry:Computer
A method of preventing a denial of service attack by limiting the number of requests that can be made to a system.
Industry:Computer
An area upon which you can draw multiple shapes. Because the shapes are contained within the drawing canvas, they can be moved and resized as a unit.
Industry:Computer
The area of storage for objects, data, or their references after a user carries out a Cut or Copy command.
Industry:Computer
The process of delegating a task if the user has not acted on the task in the alloted time frame.
Industry:Computer
Pertaining to a state in which a computer or device can be detected and recognized by another computer or device.
Industry:Computer
A file that is handled in a way that requires much less disk space than would otherwise be needed. Sparse support allows an application to create very large files without committing disk space for those regions of the file that contain only zeros. For example, you can use sparse support to work with a 42-GB file in which you need to write data only to the first 64 KB (the rest of the file is zeroed).
Industry:Computer
A control flow element that connects tasks and containers into a sequenced workflow.
Industry:Computer
