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Compare and contrast online transaction processing with online analytical processing.

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Online transaction processing (OLTP) are database applications that are used to facilitate and manage transaction-related information which are used in the daily business operations. It is also known as operational processing. It allows real-time processing of retail processes, e-commerce and other time-sensitive data. With online transaction processing, many users perform transactions together that change real-time data. Individual users may request only few records but these requests are being made simultaneously. The main concerns of the OLTP are atomicity and concurrency (msdn.microsoft.com).

Most industries use the OLTP for most of their data entry and retrieval transactions. Among these industries are banking, manufacturers, airlines, mail order and supermarkets. They ...

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