IBM's Distributed Relational Database Architecture.

Distributed Relational Database Architecture. DRDA specifies a set of formats and protocols: For making connections from an application to one or more remote database management systems, For exchanging data among them, and For managing transactions to ensure their integrity and consistency. The DRDA protocol is built on the Distributed Data Management Architecture.

an IBM database connectivity standard that has the support of many database heavyweights such as Sybase, Oracle, IBI and Informix

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