Line-of-business: the operational applications a company runs on its business data, mostly backed by OLTP databases.
Also called line of business.
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Terms in this definition
- Agents (classic) API
First-generation Foundry Agent Service API, based on threads, messages and runs. It is deprecated, replaced by conversations and responses, and retires on 31 March 2027.
- OLTP
Online transaction processing, workloads dominated by large numbers of small reads and writes, as handled by Azure SQL Database Hyperscale for instance.