Remote Database Access

Remote database access (RDA) is a protocol standard for database access.

Purpose

RDA describes the connection of a database client to a database server. It includes features for

communicating database operations and parameters from the client to the server,
in return, transporting result data from the server to the client,
database transaction management.
exchange of information.

RDA is an application-level protocol, inasmuch that it builds on an existing network connection between client and server. In the case of TCP/IP connections, RFC 1066 is used for implementing RDA.

History

RDA was published in 1993, as a combined standard of ANSI, ISO and IEC. The standards definition comprises two parts:

ANSI/ISO/IEC 9579-1:1993
ANSI/ISO/IEC 9579-2:1993

This standard has been largely ignored by commercial database vendors.^[1]

References

^ Jim Melton; Alan R. Simon (2002). SQL:1999: Understanding Relational Language Components. Morgan Kaufmann. p. 843. ISBN 978-1-55860-456-8. RDA, even after revision to remove the OSI dependencies (and replace them with a TCP/IP orientation), has not proven to have commercial support.

Sources

"Remote Database Access". NIST SQL Project. National Institute of Standards and Technology. Retrieved 2008-04-12.

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[MeltonSimon2002-1] Jim Melton; Alan R. Simon (2002). SQL:1999: Understanding Relational Language Components. Morgan Kaufmann. p. 843. ISBN 978-1-55860-456-8. RDA, even after revision to remove the OSI dependencies (and replace them with a TCP/IP orientation), has not proven to have commercial support.

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