Features

10 Years Alive in the Database Industry by David Stodder
Beginning this month, DBPD celebrates 10 years of publication. Our first journey highlights key trends and issue covered in the magazine.

Dimensional Modeling: An Analytical Approach by Erik Thomsen
If OLAP is about enablin data analysis, why not take a carefully tuned analytical approach to the model process itself?

A New Foundation by M. Tamer özsu
Complex, object-based applications demand fast networks, remote access, multimedia--and a radically different vision of the "perfect" distributed database. Here's the shape of things to come.

Enterprise Architecture: The Issue of the Century by John A. Zachman
As the Information Age speeds ahead, the IS community stumbles in disarray. A leading visionary sees light at the end of the tunnel.

Dates and Times in the SQL Standard--Part II by C.J. Date
"Time-sensitive" describes many databases today. In a continuing analysis, C.J. Data elucidates the most paradozical issues of data and time support in ANSI SQL.

Columns

Editor's Buffer by David Stodder
With a little help from our friends.

Data Architect by Barbara von Halle
Data archivist: a 21st-century profession?

According to Date by C.J. Date
10 years of gems, aphorisms--and lessons.

VLDB Vision by Richard Winter
Remember when a gigabyte was a VLDB?

Corporate Developer by Doug Thomsen
1987-1997: the bulldozer of progress.

The Last Word by Doug Thomsen
Products comes and go, but names live on.

Departments

Access Path
Keeping it simple: good or bad advice?

Product News
Tools for data marts, the Web, and more.