Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
A
active connections
In the context of connection pooling, connections that are
currently in use by the application.
See also
idle connections
B
bandwidth
The amount of data that can be transferred from one point
on the network to another in a specified period. Bandwidth
is usually expressed in bits (of data) per second (bps).
benchmark
A test that measures the performance of an application or
system on a well-defined task or set of tasks.
big endian
A byte order method used to store multibyte data, such as
long integers, in memory. Big endian machines store data in
memory big-end first. The first byte is the biggest.
See also
endianness and little endian.
boxing
A process that occurs in Java and .NET when a data type is
wrapped in an object. When boxing occurs, memory is allo-
cated from the heap on the database client to create the
object, which can force a garbage collection to occur.
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