JDBC Type 4 Driver Programmer's Reference

POSIX
See Portable Operating System Interface X (POSIX).
protocol
A set of formal rules for transmitting data, especially across a network. Low-level
protocols define electrical and physical standards, bit-ordering, byte-ordering, and the
transmission, error detection, and error correction of the bit stream. High-level protocols
define data formatting, including the syntax of messages, the terminal-to-computer
dialogue, character sets, sequencing of messages, and so on.
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RDF
See Remote Duplicate Database Facility (RDF).
Remote Duplicate Database Facility (RDF)
The HP software product that does the following:
Assists in disaster recovery for online transaction processing (OLTP) production
databases
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Monitors database updates audited by the TMF subsystem on a primary system and
applies those updates to a copy of the database on a remote system
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scalability
The ability to increase the size and processing power of an online transaction processing
system by adding processors and devices to a system, systems to a network, and so on,
and to do so easily and transparently without bringing systems down. Sometimes called
expandability.
server
One of the following:
An implementation of a system used as a stand-alone system or as a node in an
Expand network.
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The hardware component of a computer system designed to provide services in
response to requests received from clients across a network. For example, NonStop
system servers provide transaction processing, database access, and other services.
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A process or program that provides services to a client. Servers are designed to
receive request messages from clients; perform the desired operations, such as
database inquiries or updates, security verifications, numerical calculations, or data
routing to other computer systems; and return reply messages to the clients.
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set() method