Welcome to the inaugural edition of Oracle View-your source for objective, detailed coverage of the evolving Oracle environment.

STEPHEN BROBST and ROBERT FUNCK
New scalability and performance capabilities put Oracle8 in the VLDB big leagues. Here's what they are and how they work.
DAVID WELLS
Oracle is attempting to bring object/relational technology into the mainstream. How does its approach differ from those of its competitors?
ROBIN SCHUMACHER
Platinum's Desktop DBA and Embarcadero's DBArtisan.

MITCHELL KRAMER As NT Server opens the door for Microsoft component technologies like ActiveX, Transaction Server, and Message Queue Server, the implications for the database will be profound.

       ART TAYLOR Now that DSS and the Web are converging, Java applets-when carefully used-can be the ideal means of distributing data warehouse information.

NEAL FISHMAN Knowing the subtleties of your particular SQL dialect is an advantage when querying heterogeneous data stores.
EDITOR'S BUFFER
David Stodder

DATA ARCHITECT
Barbara von Halle Are business rules a silver bullet?

ACCORDING TO DATE
C. J. Date Puzzle corner answers.

VLDB VISION
Richard Winter Conversing with Tandem's Dave Wilson.

ENTERPRISE VIEW
Terry Moriarty Tools for reverse engineering.

DECISION SUPPORT
Erik Thomsen Information from anonymous transactions.

CORPORATE DEVELOPER
D. Thomson and N. Kapali A guide to software selection.

DATA-DRIVEN WORLD
Ian Shoales Relieving road rage.

ACCESS PATH
Is data mining for real?

NEWS BROWSER
The Informix saga continues.

ADVERTISER INDEX
How to contact this month's advertisers.

PRODUCT NEWS
Constellar Hub 2.0 and more.

 

DATABASE DERBY
Log on to see commercial DBMSs operating against complex data sets in a real-world, multi-user, Web environment. Development times, application source code, and HTML screens running against live databases will be available from September 22 through October 27.

ONLINE EXTRA
 Tom Turk describes how a single information architecture can be used to escape the vicious cycle of data warehouse development.


 
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