MIDDLEWARE AT HVA

INTRODUCTION
Assignment: Take a closer look at the middleware, which is needed to make a connection between a client machine and the database server at school.

TYPES OF MIDDLEWARE
Remote Data Access (RDA) Remote procedure calls (RPCs) Message-oriented middleware (MOM)

Object Request Brokers(ORBs) i.e. CORBA

Distributed transaction processing (DTP)

OUR SCHOOLS SITUATION

Microsoft SQL Server running on a Windows NT Machine A client running on a Windows 95 Computer Database is used for user account data, user rights, etc.

WHAT DO WE NEED?
A client program A DBMS A RDA standard. In our case: ODBC

A database server
A good functioning network.

THE CLIENT/SERVER MODEL

REMOTE REQUEST
What happens if someone wants to perform an operation on the database server?

OVERVIEW OF ODBC

CONCLUSION
Except the hardware necessary to make a network connection you need software, that supports the RDA protocol if you want make a database connection between a client and a database server. In most cases an ODBC driver is used.

QUESTIONS
1.What is Middleware? 2.How is a database connection between a client and a server established? 3.What is the advantage of ODBC?

RESOURCES
Distributed Information Systems from Client/Server to Distributed Multimedia Errol Simon, ISBN 0 07 709076 4 Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Second Edition Solomon, Rankins, et al., ISBN 0-672-30956-4

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