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CORBA Masterminds Object Management by Warren Keuffel The toughest challenge for system architects has been melding heterogeneous environments behind the scenes into what appears to the user as a homogeneous system.This article discusses the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), which provides the specification for an object-oriented "universal middleware" that lets programmers write objects that can interact seamlessly with other objects. A sidebar by T.J. Hart discusses some concerns with CORBA. March of the Data Marts by Peter Brooks Data marts are becoming increasingly popular tools for storing enterprise data. Originally designed as small databases with easy end-user access, data marts now must often scale to hold hundreds of gigabytes of data upon which sophisticated analysis can be performed. Contributing editor Peter Brooks discusses how vendors are handling these changes. VLDB Strategies, Part 2 by Stephen Brobst and Owen Robertson The second part of this VLDB series reviews critical VLDB administration issues and explores how you can use indexing strategies, parallel processing, and three-tier architectures to manage VLDB implementations effectively. It also describes how several leading RDBMSs support very large databases.

From the Editor by Maurice Frank Pondering push technology. Enterprise C/S by Judith Hurwitz Developing an applications management strategy. Data Warehouse Architect by Ralph Kimball Query tools and the Internet. SQL for Smarties by Joe Celko Shuffling through random thoughts. Application Architect by David S. Linthicum Moving to n-tier RAD. Server Side by Martin Rennhackkamp Backup and recovery of data. Object.Client by Tom Spitzer Exploring Access

Products Hands-On Reviews Edited by Betsy Slattery Level\5 Quest Server lets you publish searchable databases on the World Wide Web. Sylvain Faust Inc.'s SQL-Programmer 2.0 is a development environment for back-end programming.

Departments Letters Event Alerter A calendar of conferences, trade shows, and seminars. Client/Server Connection News from around the industry. Advertiser Directory Links to this month's advertisers.