October 1996
Table of Contents

Features

Client/Server Redefined
by Mary Panttaja
Internet developments tend to obliterate news of other advances. But in the years since the "revolution," client/server technologies have comes of age. With the Internet, they will reshape information architectures.

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Data Modelers
by Daniel Moody
What separates expert data modelers from the rest? Well, have you ever heard of the Method school of data modeling?

Business Rules and Object-Role Modeling
by Terry Halpin
Businesses today are complex organisms, challenging modelers to capture them with simplicity and clarity. The solution may lie a few steps beyond traditional entity-relationship diagramming.

VLDB Special Edition

A very large database (VLDB) is more than just lotsa data: It is a strategic asset that could propel new lines of business. Welcome to our special supplement on VLDBs!

The Business Multiplier: An Interview with Michael Saylor. MicroStrategy Inc.'s founder lives and breathes large decision support systems (DSSs). He describes the business explosion when DSS becomes Web-aware.

Effective MPP Performance Management. NCR's Teradata is a leading massively parallel processing (MPP) platform. Boris Zibitsker and Gdaliy Sigalov offer strategies for measuring and tuning performance.

Columns

Editor's Buffer by David Stodder
DBMS vendors seek serendipity.

Data Architect by Barbara von Halle
Business rules: A data-driven principle.

According to Date by C.J. Date
Answers to C.J. Date's recent puzzlers.

VLDB Vision by David Stodder
Supersoftware replaces supercomputers.

Enterprise View by Terry Moriarty
Breaking down the warehouse infrastructure.

Corporate Developer by Doug Thomson
Smalltalk's promise for development.

Data-Driven World by Ian Shoales
Copyright craziness in the Information Age.

Departments

Access Path
Is data modeling design--or analysis?

Product News
Dynasty enables Web development.