9. A method of statistical application in an online transaction processing (OLTP) environment, the method comprising: querying a database containing a statistical table to determine whether a statistical record having a record identity exists in the statistical table; responsive to existence of the statistical record, checking a time element of the statistical record to determine whether the statistical record has expired; responsive to the existence of the statistical record and the statistical record having not expired, sending the statistical record to an inquirer; or responsive to either the statistical record not existing or the statistical record having expired, invoking a programming language statement to compute the statistical record and inserting or updating the statistical record in the statistical table using a computed result of a Structural Query Language (SQL) statement.
11. The method as recited in claim 9 , wherein determining whether the statistical record has expired comprises: checking a time marker in a data field of the statistical record in the database.