AS/NZS 4379.1:1996

Specifies a remote database access service in terms of the database server and the database processing services with respect to the remote database access client. This Standard is identical with and has been reproduced from ISO/IEC 9579-1:1993.

ISO/IEC 9579 specifies the OSI Remote Database Access (RDA) Service in terms ofa) the behaviour, as perceived from the OSI environment, of an application-process, called a database server, that provides database storage facilities and database processing services (that is, provides a database management system) to other application-processes; andb) the behaviour, as perceived from the OSI environment, of an application-process, called an RDA client, that accesses remote database facilities.This part of ISO/IEC 9579, called the "RDA Generic Standard", specifies the general capabilities of an RDA Service.These generic capabilities are intended to be used for interaction with many different database management systems.Other parts of ISO/IEC 9579, called "RDA Specialization Standards", pertain to particular database languages, and augment the RDA Generic Standard by specifying how the generic capabilities of RDA are specialized for each of those database languages.Thus a complete RDA Service is specified, for a given database language, by the combination of two parts of ISO/IEC 9579, one (this part) for the generic capabilities of RDA and a second (another part) for that particular database language.The resulting specification is an OSI Application Layer standard.

First published as AS/NZS 4379.1:1996.