January 1997
Table of Contents

Features

Database in the Internet Age: Tower of Babel?
by Stuart Madnick
Losing the context--and thereby the meaning--of information is an impediment to effective Internet communication. As guardians of quality, database professionals must step up to the challenge.

Database and the Web: Giant Steps
by Brian Black
Interesting new business adventures arise out of the synergy between database and Web technology. Here are examples of companies making the great leap forward.

Browsers, Browsers Everywhere
by Craig Baumunk
Browsers have become a wildly popular way to surf the Web's information riches. Why not apply this paradigm to enable developers and designers to surf models and databases just as easily?

Can SQL3 Be Simplified?
by David Beech
With object/relational databases fast becoming commercial realities, the ANSI SQL3 standard is under intense scrutiny. But will SQL3's complexity nullify the relational model's greatest strength: simplicity?

Columns

Editor's Buffer by David Stodder
Our best-laid plans for 1997.

Data Architect by Barbara von Halle and Jane Conkey
Business rules for businesspeople.

According to Date by C.J. Date
Design difficulties of missing information.

VLDB Vision by Richard Winter
Redefining the very large database.

Enterprise View by David Plotkin
How to convert to object modeling.

Corporate Developer by Doug Thomson
Not all development snags are technical.

Data-Driven World by Ian Shoales
Nothing to fear but information itself.

Departments

Access Path
A reader's tip on handling nulls.

Product News
Meet HOW, a new tool for business objects.