| 摘要 |
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing access to information stored in a database management system. The method and apparatus uses an intelligent generic query agent to operate with a wide variety of remote users, and to allow implementation of a wide variety of optimization schemes. The method comprises receiving a request from the remote user at the agent, transforming the request into database management system commands optimized in accordance with user-specified optimization criteria, transmitting the database management system commands to the database management system, receiving the database management system command result from the database management system in the agent, transforming the database management system command result into a response message, and transmitting the response message to from the agent to the remote user.
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