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Staying on the Good Side of Modular Design

CASEY YOUNG You'd never know it from the current objects craze, but modular development is still risky. Here's how to reap the rewards through planning, documentation, and relational database techniques.

Packaged Apps Meet DSS

ROBERT CRAIG When they're well integrated, packaged applications and decision-support systems can offer the "business intelligence" that every organization is looking for--and vendors are scrambling to deliver it.

Chasing the Jaguar

GEORGE ANDERSON Jaguar CTS, Sybase's new middle-tier execution environment, is among the component servers that are leaping to life to enable "Web OLTP." This detailed analysis explains how and why.

Special Series on Temporal Database (Part 1): Of Duplicates and Septuplets

RICK SNODGRASS Kicking off his special series on time-varying data, Snodgrass describes how duplicate rows can be prevented in temporal tables using standard SQL as well as in DB2, Oracle, and Sybase.

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EDITOR'S BUFFER
Justin Kestelyn Where else can we embed a database?

DATA ARCHITECT
Terry Moriarty The story on scenarios.

VLDB VISION
Richard Winter The VLDB death zone.

WORKING WAREHOUSE
Alan Simon Clearing the fog about ODS.

ACCORDING TO DATE
C. J. Date To have and have not, part 2.

E-DATABASE
Pratik Patel Java review time.

DECISION SUPPORT
Erik Thomsen Why DSSs need the human touch.

SQL UPDATE
Jim Melton We're making progress ... really.

DATA-DRIVEN WORLD
Ian Shoales White noise.

ACCESS PATH
The readers are getting ideas.

NEWS BROWSER
Platinum gobbles up Logic Works.

ADVERTISER INDEX
How to contact this month's advertisers.

PRODUCT NEWS
Informatica's PowerMart 4.0 and more.