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- From: dhepner@cup.hp.com (Dan Hepner)
- Subject: Re: What is X/Open Distributed Transaction Processing
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:42:34 GMT
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- Subject: Re: What is X/Open Distributed Transaction Processing
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- >What is X/Open Distributed Transaction Processing?
-
- A set of interface definitions which support distributed applications
- doing transaction processing.
-
- >It may be of some use to us here.
- >We are working on a distributed database project.
-
- Check out RDA, or SQL access. These are standards in
- support of distributed databases. Actually, most RDBMS
- vendors already have reasonable distributed database
- products.
-
- The essential difference is what you can send to the remote
- site, and what kind of processing you can do at the remote
- site.
-
- With a distributed application, you can send whatever you
- like to the remote site, which is received by an arbitrarily
- complex program, usually written in C or Cobol.
-
- With a distributed database, you can send SQL statements
- to the remote site. You may have the opportunity to
- write complex "stored procedures" in a proprietary
- stored procedure language, and invoke these procedures
- with an SQL statement.
-
- Dan Hepner
-