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Judging Database Design Tools
Robin Schumacher
Choosing a database design tool is an important decision--especially if you end up with the wrong one. Some important criteria demand consideration.

Getting Physical with Oracle
Gary E. Sharpe
Physical placement is a critical issue in mid- to large-sized Oracle applications. The techniques described here can help ensure optimal server performance.

 
 

Object/Relational Grows Up
W. Donald Frazer As object/relational databases grow, support for parallelism is the answer to the challenges imposed by VLDB complexity.
DB2 Universal Database Under the Hood
Stephen Brobst and Bob Vecchione IBM is driving hard toward the client/server market with DB2 Universal Database. This analysis describes the enhancements that provide the gas.
Keeping the Data Warehouse on Track
Dave Guderian, Doug Leer, and Steve Molini As this case study shows, deploying a large-scale data warehouse involves a broad range of integration, management, and planning issues.
 
EDITOR'S BUFFER
David Stodder Wanted: more database elites.

DATA ARCHITECT
T. Moriarty and S. Hellwege The ins and outs of data migration.

VLDB VISION
Richard Winter Informix takes on VLDBs.

WORKING WAREHOUSE
Alan Simon Avoiding architectural insufficiency.

ACCORDING TO DATE
C. J. Date The final normal form.

E-DATABASE
Pratik Patel How the Web really works.

DECISION SUPPORT
Erik Thomsen In search of an OLAP world.

DATA-DRIVEN WORLD
Ian Shoales Mad about boxes.

ACCESS PATH
TPC-D shootout: The smoke clears.

NEWS BROWSER
It's raining Java.

SUBJECT INDEX
Our index of 1997 articles and columns.

ADVERTISER INDEX

PRODUCT NEWS
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise et al.



 
ONLINE EXTRA
Suresh Aiyer
offers 25 helpful SQL hints--some of them appearing for the first time--that can make Oracle queries faster and better.
 
 
 

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