Remote Database Access
Remote database access (RDA) is a protocol standard for database access. Despite early efforts to develop proof of concept implementations of RDA for major commercial remote database management systems (RDBMSs) (including Oracle, Rdb, NonStop SQL and Teradata),[1] this standard has been largely ignored by commercial database vendors.[2]
Purpose
The purpose of RDA is to describe 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, and
- 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 (International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission). The standards definition comprises two parts:
- ANSI/ISO/IEC 9579-1:1993
- ANSI/ISO/IEC 9579-2:1993
References
- ^ Arnold, D.; Cannata, P.; Glasson, L.A.; Hallmark, G.; McGuire, B.; Newman, S.; Odegard, R.; Sabharwal, H. (1991). "SQL Access: an implementation of the ISO Remote Database Access Standard". Computer. 24 (12): 74–78. doi:10.1109/2.116891. ISSN 0018-9162.
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2008-04-12.
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