Finding Your Way
by David S. Linthicum
Networks offer a gold mine of resources -- if you know where they are. Directory services help you do just that, by identifying where your network resources are and helping you build applications that can intelligently find these resources on their own. David Linthicum examines the current state of directory services and helps you determine the right one for your application infrastructure.

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Push Back in Push Technology By Neil Raden Push technology may be our best hope yet for improving the decision-support process. It incorporates collaboration and consensus-building among knowledge workers, improving their ability to deal with information. In this article, Neil Raden examines the implications of push technology on data warehousing and decision support in an attempt to determine whether push is the next panacea or merely a distraction. Sybase for the Web By Brian Jepson So you've decided to use Perl to develop your Sybase SQL Server-driven Web applicaton. Now what? You still must decide which Perl-based configuration to use. This article helps take the agony out of the decision, walking you through the development process and explaining the strengrhs and weaknesses of each solution.

ONLINE NOW December Feature: Inside Oracle 8 by Robin Schumacher There's no denying that Oracle gave its flagship DBMS a substantial overhaul with the release of Oracle8. Has Oracle merely managed to catch up to the rest of the industry, or has it forged ahead to new, uncharted territories? This article examines Oracle's strategy and technology with Oracle8 and explains what you'll really find when you crack open the shrinkwrap.

Enterprise Manager
by Judith Hurwitz
Finding holes in your system's security.

Data Warehouse Architect
by Ralph Kimball
Preparing your data for mining.

SQL for Smarties
by Joe Celko
Denormalizing and data encoding.

Application Architect
by David S. Linthicum
Message-oriented middleware for the masses.

Server Side
by Martin Rennhackkamp
Implementing mobile databases.

Object.Client
by Tom Spitzer
Tom will return next month.