A database that is physically located on the workstation in use. Contrast with remote database.
a database that resides on a single machine
a physical database hosted on your system through the WebZ ZBase server
The database that SQL*Plus connects to when you start SQL*Plus, ordinarily a database on your host computer. Also called a default database. See also remote database.
A database residing on the system.
(1) The database on the computer running the application. (2) The database to which an application is connected. This database parses and executes all SQL statements generated by the application. Contrast with remote database.