Relational Data Base Management For On-Line Transaction Processing

ABSTRACT: This article outlines the requirements of on-line transaction processing and indicates bow relational data base technology can be applied and implemented to meet those requirements. A major problem with many experimental or early commercially developed relational systems was their performance in a transaction processing environment. A second purpose of this article, therefore, is to explore organizational and architectural techniques for achieving ' a functionally complete, high-performance relational data-base system. Copyright © 1981, 1982,Tandem Computers Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. nr.randem, NonStop, ENCOMPASS, ENFORM, and ENSCRmE are trademarks of Tandem Com-puters Incorporated