Description: On-Line Transaction Processing is a processing that supports the daily business operations. Also know as operational processing and OLTP. An OLTP is a database which must typically allow the real-time processing of SQL transactions to support traditional retail processes, e-commerce and other time-critical applications. It is also a class of program that helps to manage or facilitate transaction oriented applications such as data entry and retrieval transactions in a number of industries, including banking, airlines, mail order, supermarkets, and manufacturers. With today's business environment, it is impossible to run a business without having to rely on data. Processing online transactions these days increasingly requires support for transactions spanning a large network or even the global internet and may include many companies. Because of this great demand, many new OLTP software implementations use client – server processing and brokering of software applications that can enable transactions to run on various computer platforms within a network.
