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    Oracle SQL/Services(TM) is a client/server system that enables
    client applications on PCs and workstations to access data in
    Oracle Rdb7(TM) databases on server systems. A simplified view of
    Oracle SQL/Services is shown in the following illustration.

    CLIENT                      NETWORK                       SERVER
    COMPONENT                  COMPONENT                      COMPONENT
    +------------+ +---+ +------+     +------+ +------------+ +---------+
    |  Client    | |API| |Trans-|<----|Trans-| |   Oracle   | |Database |
    |Application | |   | |port  |---->|port  | |SQL/Services| |Function |
    +------------+ +---+ +------+     +------+ |  Server    | +---------+
                                               +------------+

    Oracle SQL/Services follows the client/server model in which:

    o  The client requests a set of services from the server through
       an agreed upon interface.

    o  The server responds by accepting client requests, calling the
       server function to execute requests, and sending results back
       to the client.

    Message requests from the client system and response requests
    from the server travel over a DECnet, Transmission Control
    Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), SQL*Net(R), AppleTalk, or
    NetWare (IPX/SPX) communications link.

    In its implementation of the client/server model, Oracle
    SQL/Services enables programmers working on any of several
    computing platforms (Macintosh for MPW, Macintosh for THINK C, MS
    Windows on MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows NT X86, Windows NT Alpha,
    Solaris, Digital UNIX, OpenVMS VAX, or OpenVMS Alpha) to develop
    client applications that remotely access server databases stored
    on any operating system supported by the Oracle SQL/Services
    server using an available network transport.

    Server databases that client applications can access include
    either Oracle Rdb7 databases or other databases supported by
    Oracle Rdb7 SQL.

 

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