DBPD Table of Contents September 1998

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The Next Five Years ALAN SIMON Even today, DBMSs are still commonly used as glorified file management systems. As these predictions attest, databases in 2003 will achieve unfulfilled potential more than anything else.
Dispelling the Mixed Workload Myth JIM PAULIN Conventional wisdom holds that OLTP and DSS applications mix like oil and water. But how often is mixed workload performance truly unacceptable? These experiments offer surprising answers.
Outlook for Portfolio Management Databases YUVAL LIROV, MARTHA BEN-MICHAEL, PHIL BRIN, AND DON GERTLER Portfolio managers live and die by their information systems. New DSSs based on object/relational technology can help them address growing data capacity and complexity.
Special Series on Temporal Database (Part 5): Temporal Support in Standard SQL RICK SNODGRASS The next standard SQL will support temporal as well as nontemporal queries. This final installment examines the enhancements that will bring temporal processing to the masses.
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EDITOR'S BUFFER David Stodder Database P&D lives. DATA ARCHITECT Terry Moriarty Tribute to change. VLDB VISION Richard Winter The VLDB chronicles. WORKING WAREHOUSE Alan Simon Take the hype …please.	E-DATABASE Pratik Patel Java interfaces to ODBMSs. ACCORDING TO DATE C.J.Date An Assembler story. DECISION SUPPORT Erik Thomsen Four themes for the future. ODMG UPDATE Doug Barry Ericsson’s David Jordan weighs in. DATA-DRIVEN WORLD Ian Shoales Windows, the collectors’ edition.	ACCESS PATH Challenge for Tanning. NEWS BROWSER A new look at Sun. ADVERTISER INDEX How to contact this month's advertisers. PRODUCT NEWS Seagate Software’s Holos 7 and more.
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