The Express Relational Access Manager (RAM) is used to access Oracle and other ODBC data sources directly. This effectively turns the Express Server into a ROLAP analysis (Relational OLAP) engine. Configuration is done via the RAA (Relational Access Administrator) GUI utility.
If you have 10 or more years of service and are retiring at the Minimum Retirement Age, your annuity will be reduced for each month that you are under age 62. The reduction is 5% per year (5/12 of a percent per month).
The only real guarantee of an annuity is a diminishing lifestyle because of inflation. We use 4.5% as an average inflation rate. By the time Martha is 85 years old, inflation will have reduced the buying power of the annuity from $30,000 to less than $11,000. Annuities offer too much income to spend early in retirement only to keep that number constant and offer too little later in life.