DBPD Table of Contents August 1998

FEATURES		S P E C I A L S U P P L E M E N T VLDB If a VLDB is the ultimate fulfillment of a scalable system, then looking to VLDB users--such as the ones described here--can provide valuable information about what scalability really entails. THE BIG TIME Richard Winter and Kathy Auerbach The Winter VLDB Survey Program has become the industry yardstick for the world's largest systems. This exclusive report reveals this year's VLDB milestones. ANATOMY OF A VLDB Larry Tanning and Allan Edwards Oxford Health Plan's transaction processing system offers insight into how to manage thousands of accesses, complex business rules, and huge amounts of data. COUNTDOWN Louis A. Mascelli How close is your Year 2000 remediation project to completion? Unless you've established an integrated test data strategy and environment, you probably don't even know.
Looking Forward to Interactive Queries JOSEPH M. HELLERSTEIN Unlike today's databases, which offer no information during query processing, soon-to-be-available technology from U.C. Berkeley encourages interactive data exploration.
How Digital Libraries Will Save Civilization EDWARD FOX, NEILL KIPP, AND PAUL MATHER As digital library research achieves critical mass, database professionals can make valuable contributions to interoperability and help meet other challenges. Suggested Resources
Painting a Portrait of Data LAURA LUCAS Pie charts and graphs are limited for visualizing massive amounts of complex data. Instead, IT users require a new visual information language for managing their environments.
Special Series on Temporal Database (Part 3): Modifying Valid-Time State Tables RICK SNODGRASS The third installment of our special series explains how and why to modify valid-time state tables.
COLUMNS		DEPARTMENTS
EDITOR'S BUFFER Justin Kestelyn Remember the Euro. DATA ARCHITECT Terry Moriarty "Doing" business rules. VLDB VISION Richard Winter Is your warehouse in very large trouble? WORKING WAREHOUSE Alan Simon Using a functionality matrix.	ACCORDING TO DATE C.J.Date Preview of The Third Manifesto. E-DATABASE Pratik Patel The dynamics of DHTML. DECISION SUPPORT Erik Thomsen The auditing OLAP gap. DATA-DRIVEN WORLD Ian Shoales Internet: the sequel.	ACCESS PATH RDBMSs and handhelds. NEWS BROWSER Is Oracle ditching client/server? ADVERTISER INDEX How to contact this month's advertisers. PRODUCT NEWS Computer Associates releases Ingres II.
Online Extra Kelly Bourne manipulates SQL Server 7.0 indexes to make more efficient operations. (August 1998)
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