Distributed data
Many businesses need to manage data from a wide variety of sources and locations. A distributed environment provides the flexibility that is required to allocate resources for data that is located at different sites or database management systems (DBMSs) in a computer network.
Distributed data is data that resides on a DBMS other than your local system. Your local DBMS is the one on which you bind your application plan. All other DBMSs are remote.
Remote servers
When you request services from a remote DBMS, the remote DBMS is a server and your local system is a requester or client. Conceptually, a server is like a food server who takes food orders, delivers food, and provides other services to customers. The customer is like ...
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