1. A method of statistical application in an online transaction processing (OLTP) environment, the method comprising: determining whether a statistical record exists in a cache of an application server prior to querying a database containing a statistical table, wherein the database is a relational database having tables therein that are formatted in accordance with a corresponding program language; responsive to existence of the statistical record, checking a time element of the statistical record to determine whether the statistical record has expired; and responsive to the existence of the statistical record and the statistical record having not expired, sending the statistical record to an inquirer.
2. The method as recited in claim 1 , the method further comprising: responsive to either the statistical record not existing in the cache or the statistical record in the cache having expired, querying the database containing the statistical table to determine whether the statistical record exists in the statistical table, and responsive to the existence of the statistical record in the database and the statistical record in the database having not expired, sending the statistical record in the database to an inquirer or responsive to either the statistical record not existing in the database or the statistical record in the database having expired, invoking a statement of the programming language to compute the statistical record.