IBM 000-8697 ユーザーズマニュアル

Introduction

The

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O

n

L

ine database server combines high-availability, online

transaction-processing (

OLTP

) performance with multimedia capabilities. By

managing its own shared-memory resources and disk I/O, OnLine delivers
process concurrency while maintaining transaction isolation. Table data can
span multiple disks, freeing administrators from constraints imposed by data
storage limitations. The

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STAR

 product brings OnLine perfor-

mance to users throughout a client/server environment. The

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TP/XA

 product allows you to use the OnLine database server as a Resource

Manager within an X/Open environment.

IBM provides a variety of application development tools,

CASE

 tools,

database servers, utilities, and client/server products.

DB-A

ccess is a utility

that allows you to access, modify, and retrieve information from OnLine
relational databases.

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O

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ine supports all application devel-

opment tools currently available, including products like

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SQL

,

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4GL

 and Interactive Debugger, and the Informix embedded

language products, such as

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ESQL/C

.

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O

n

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ine also

works with third-party application development tools through the

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ODBC D

river and the

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JDBC D

river.

For running applications on a network,

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STAR

 provides

distributed database access to multiple

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ine database

servers.