Table of Contents - September 1996 Vol. 9 No. 10

Features

The Oracle Enterprise By Stewart McKie
Generating more fanfare lately with its ambitious Network Computer project, Oracle continues to offer a strong core database technology that it leverages more effectively than any other company in the industry. This article examines Oracle's corporate vision and product strategy and includes an interview with Oracle President and Chief Operating Officer Ray Lane.

Dealing with Dirty Data By Ralph Kimball
Every serious data warehouse application needs good data, yet few people address the issue. This article explores the science of maintaining clean data in data warehouses and looks at three companies that dominate the data-cleaning marketplace.

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Part 2 By Michael Gora
In the follow-up to his June article "Object-Oriented Analysis and Design," Michael Gora discusses object orientation and object modeling techniques for relational database transactions.

Objects Meet Data By David S. Linthicum
The drive toward object orientation has left many relational folks high and dry. This article surveys the current object-to-relational market and technology.

Columns

From the Editor By Maurice Frank
Dirty data downstream and upstream.

Enterprise C/S By Judith Hurwitz
Weighing the risks before adopting new technology.

Data Warehouse Architect By Ralph Kimball
Factless fact tables.

SQL for Smarties By Joe Celko
The plight of the homepageless.

C/S Developer By David S. Linthicum
New visual client/server development tools help C++ prevail.

Server Side By Martin Rennhackkamp
Performance Monitoring 101.

Desktop DBMS By Tom Spitzer
Visual dBASE gets wired.

Products

Hands-On Reviews Edited by Betsy Slattery

Oberon's visual programming tool Prospero 1.1 lets developers share and transfer data from a single source among different desktop and client/server programs.

Brio Technology's BrioQuery Enterprise 4.0 is a desktop decision-support product that offers integrated query, desktop OLAP, interactive charting, and reporting capabilities.

Departments

Letters

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

Client/Server Connection
News from around the industry.