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New Standard Benefits.(Distributed Relational Database Architecture (DRDA) protocol, industry standard for database access interoperability)

Enterprise Systems Journal, September, 1999 by Rampel, Paul

The Distributed Relational Database Architecture (DRDA) protocol, which the Open Group has proposed as a database access interoperability standard, is discussed. DRDA is designed to let users link various database systems quickly and easily, without having to implement multiple gateways.

Not long ago, if users wanted to exchange data in different databases, they had to use a convoluted mix of propriety gateways, host software and non-standard programming interfaces. Customers longed for true database access interoperability. They wanted a simple, consistent way to obtain and manipulate ...

 

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