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PGA

PGA: In an Oracle database: Program Global Area. The PGA is a memory region containing data and control information for a single process (server or background). One PGA is allocated for each server process, the PGA is exclusive to that server process and is read and written only by Oracle code acting on behalf of that process. A PGA is allocated by Oracle when a user connects to an Oracle database and a session is created.

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