IBM 000-8697 User Manual
Product Environment
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In This Chapter
This chapter describes three possible OnLine environments:
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A single OnLine database server operating on a host machine
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Two or more OnLine database servers operating independently on
the same host machine (referred to as multiple residency)
the same host machine (referred to as multiple residency)
■
Two or more OnLine database servers operating on a network
configured with the
configured with the
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The OnLine Environment
The OnLine database server combines fault-tolerant, online transaction-
processing (
processing (
OLTP
) performance with multimedia capabilities. With OnLine,
users can integrate information objects such as scanned and digitized images,
voice, graphs, facsimiles, and word-processing documents into an
voice, graphs, facsimiles, and word-processing documents into an
SQL
-based
relational database.
OnLine Features
This section summarizes OnLine features. Cross-references direct you to
more detailed information about each feature.
more detailed information about each feature.