December 1996
Table of Contents

Features

The Repository: A Modern Vision
by Philip A. Bernstein
Object orientation and the Internet are reshaping this "centerpiece" of information architectures. A leading developer describes how tomorrow's repositories could take shape.

Report from the Trenches
by Tim Quinlan
Data warehousing remains a red-hot trend, but actually producing one can be a battle.

Sybase IQ: Expressly for the Warehouse
by Richard Finkelstein
Sybase IQ offers a nontraditional--yet relational--solution specifically for the data warehouse.

Data Administration and TQM: Perfect Together!
by Robert Giordano
Is there hope for a DA/TQM match--with real quality the result?

When You Wish Upon a Star
by Kevin Loney, Eyal Aronoff, and Noorali Sonawalla
Star schema designs are standard for most data warehouses. With Oracle, you can turn logical designs into high-performance queries.

Columns

Editor's Buffer by David Stodder
Parallel systems vendors try new strategies.

Data Architect by Barbara von Halle
Getting the business to know its business values.

According to Date by C.J. Date
Design alternatives for default values.

VLDB Vision by Richard Winter
What's the potential for very large OODBs?

Enterprise View by Terry Moriarty
Some must-read books for warehouse designers.

SQL Update by Jim Melton
Progress report on the SQL3 standard.

Data-Driven World by Ian Shoales
Telecommuters can't hide from reality.

Departments

Access Path
Shedding light on relational history.

Product News
Internet meets database in new releases.



 
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