SESAM/SQL is a relational database system which has proved its worth in a wide range of applications. It is employed by several hundreds of thousands of users for a variety of tasks in commerce, administration and science.
The particular strength of SESAM/SQL lies in its use in online transaction processing (OLTP) applications. A large number of SESAM/SQL applications exist which allow several thousand users to access common data resources simultaneously. This involves the usage of tables containing gigabytes of data sometimes with up to 250 million records. There are thus no upper limits on the performance provided by SESAM/SQL. Users can rest assured that SESAM/SQL is able to deal with considerable increases in the number of users and the volume of data handled.
SESAM/SQL fulfills all the demands placed on a modern database system in today’s world.
The following sections describe the relational aspects of SESAM/SQL along with the other features and the product environment. This will provide a comprehensive overview of SESAM/SQL with regard to the access options and various fields of application.