Building on Bigger Boxes
by Gordon Prioreschi
Scalability is an acknowledged business necessity. This second article in the Emergent Corp. Transaction Processing Series examines what hardware elements make a highly scalable system that will support OLTP applications, focusing on MPP, SMP, clustering, and NUMA architectures.

JDBC and Firewalls
by Marcia Gulesian
Firewall security has traditionally been a roadblock for applications that use JDBC to access corporate databases. This article presents some of the most important factors you need to consider when selecting JDBC drivers and firewalls that work together.

Integrating BackOffice Servers
by Dan Rahmel
There are now eight servers included with Microsoftıs BackOffice suite. Dan Rahmel explains how these servers intercommunicate so you can better understand the complete underlying server framework.

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Enterprise Manager
by Judith Hurwitz
Configuration-management solutions.

Data Warehouse Architect
by Ralph Kimball
Working with human resources data marts.

SQL for Smarties
by Joe Celko
Translation table traumas.

Application Architect
by David S. Linthicum
Crossing the ERP road.

Server Side
by Martin Rennhackkamp
Teleran deters runaway queries.

Component Assembler
by Tom Spitzer
Making multiple tiers easier.

Start Here
by Clara H. Parkes
Architecturally speaking.