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Abstract

Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture are described that eliminate the administrative complexities, latency and scalability restrictions associated with conventional methods for providing asynchronous access to database operations. An asynchronous messaging engine is integrated with and executed within a database system and provides access to database system capabilities and resources, such as shared memory, buffer pools, and process controls. The need for external asynchronous message data exchange processes is eliminated, thereby eliminating the latency associated with the extra hop conventionally required to move data from an external process to the database and eliminating the complexities associated with starting, stopping and monitoring such processes. Because the asynchronous messaging engine executes within the database system and has access to database system capabilities, such as shared memory, buffer pools, and process controls, the new features allow support for an unlimited array of new asynchronous communications patterns between a database and asynchronous applications/clients.

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