Table of Contents - August 1996 Vol 9 No 9

Features

The CA Enterprise By Stewart McKie
Long known as a mainframe software company, Computer Associates International is quietly gaining ground in the client/server market with its CA-Unicenter product. This article, the fourth in our Enterprise Series, explores the 20-year-old company's product strategy and corporate vision, including its most recent venture into the Internet and multimedia database management market with Jasmine. An interview with CA President and COO Sanjay Kumar is included.

Battle of the Modeling Techniques By Warren Keuffel
Computer professionals have long sought methods to help them understand and control the essence of data. This article tracks the development of three popular modeling techniques and notations: entity relationship, Nijssen's Information Analysis Methodology, and Semantic Object Modeling.

C++ Tools for Client/Server Development By David S. Linthicum
Despite the increasing popularity and appeal of specialized 4GL client/server tools that support RAD-driven development, C++ tools have held their own, cranking out speedy, bulletproof client/server applications by the thousands. This article surveys C++ tools and add-on products for client/server application development.

Columns

From the Editor By Maurice Frank
Disposable development and temporary applications.

Enterprise C/S By Judith Hurwitz
Meeting the needs of the virtual corporation.

Data Warehouse Architect By Ralph Kimball
Dangerous preconceptions and liberating truths.

SQL for Smarties By Joe Celko
What your father never told you.

C/S Developer By David S. Linthicum
The latest batch of Java tools.

Server Side By Martin Rennhackkamp
Comparing data integrity controls.

Desktop DBMS By Tom Spitzer
A trip to the component and tools marketplace.

Products

Hand-On Reviews Edited by Betsy Slattery

Logic Work's data modeling tool ERWin/ERX helps you develop your client/server and Web database model quickly and thoroughly.

Embarcadero Technologies' newly released ER/1 is an easy-to-use database modeling and SQL code generation tool that supports only IDEF1X notation.

Departments

Letters

Event Alerter
A calendar of conferences, trade shows, and seminars.

Client/Server Connection
News from around the industry.

Data Warehouse Special Report

Data warehousing remains one of the hottest database trends. Find out what's new in our special report.

From the Editor By Maurice Frank

What's New in Data Warehousing By Ken Rudin
Data warehousing experienced a tremendous growth in the past year. This article takes an inventory of recent and emerging trends in the data warehouse market. Rudin explores scalable data warehouses, the OLAP vs. ROLAP debate, data mining, data visualization, data marts, and Web browser front ends to data warehouses.

Defining Data Mining By Bruce Moxon
This article introduces data mining: what it is (and isn't), why it is important, and how it can be used to reveal critical relationships in rapidly expanding corporate data warehouses. Moxon explains several data mining techniques used in today's products.

Aggregate Navigation With (Almost) No Metadata By Ralph Kimball
The single most dramatic way to affect performance in a large data warehouse is to provide a proper set of aggregate (summary) records that coexist with the primary base records. Kimball describes how to structure a data warehouse to maximize the benefits of aggregates, and how to build and use those aggregates without requiring complex accompanying metadata.

Reporting Against Large Databases By Peter Brooks and Christa Wollenweber
Today's very large databases can overwhelm traditional client-based report writers. New three-tier reporting architectures offload processing from both end-user client machines and database servers. This article describes new products that divide processing among clients, report servers, and database servers.

Buyer's Guide By Betsy Slattery
Over 100 products for all facets of data warehousing.