Table of Contents - October 1996 Vol. 9 No. 11

Features

Dawn of the CyberApp By Stewart McKie
Business application vendors are just now getting their feet wet by Web- enabling their existing application designs. But just as client/server forced a rewrite of monolithic, mainframe applications, so will the Internet act as a catalyst for the design of a new generation of business applications. DBMS Contributing Editor Stewart McKie explains six business rules driving the redesign of both client and server components of the emerging CyberApps.

Understanding and Managing Textbases By Joe Celko
Most companies are accumulating mountains of textual information stored in documents such as letters, contracts, manuals, regulations, policies, procedures, and now Web pages. The market for text and document DBMSs is also growing rapidly as more users organize textual information in databases. Popular columnist Joe Celko describes specialized storage, indexing, searching, and analysis techniques for managing textbases. A list of textbase vendors is included.

Interview

Rational Software's Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson, and Jim Rumbaugh
The Unified Modeling Language unites three leading object-oriented methodologies.

Columns

From the Editor By Clara H. Parkes
Nothing comes for free.

Enterprise C/S By Judith Hurwitz
Hula hoops and technology transitions.

Data Warehouse Architect By Ralph Kimball
Downsize your disk using data compression.

SQL for Smarties By Joe Celko
The highs and lows of SQL.

C/S Developer By David S. Linthicum
A look at what's behind SAP R/3's unprecedented popularity.

Server Side By Martin Rennhackkamp
Comparing performance tuning in seven servers.

Desktop DBMS By Tom Spitzer
Oracle's Designer/2000 analysis, design, and application generation tool.

Products

Hands-On Reviews Edited by Betsy Slattery

Powersoft's newest S-Designor 5.1 CASE tool now generates PowerBuilder and Visual Basic applications.

DataMind Corp.'s DataMind Professional brings sophisticated data mining as close as your nearest Excel spreadsheet.

Soft Notes, new client/server database products and upgrades.

Departments

Letters

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

Client/Server Connection
News from around the industry.