Software Agents: Application Intelligence Goes Undercover by Stewart McKie
This feature explores the expanding role of software agents in today's client/server systems. Software agents are pieces of code that monitor events and take action in an asynchronous fashion. They are very much like human intelligence agents, who are trained extensively and briefed in detail for specific missions.
The Challenge of Replication, Part 2 by Herb Edelstein
In Part 1 of this series, Herb Edelstein explained the concept of replication Ñ the different approaches and how they work. In Part 2, Herb analyzes how these replication strategies are applied in products from IBM, Sybase, Computer Associates, Oracle, Microsoft, Lotus, and Trinzic.
Test-Driving CA-Ingres/Replicator by Martin Rennhackkamp
In this case study, Martin Rennhackkamp concentrates on how South Africa's national network management system uses CA-Ingres/Replicator to distribute fault reports to remote centers spread across the country.
Tuning for Oracle7 by Willard Baird II
Oracle7 provides a wide range of performance-tuning features, including a shared-pool architecture, a cost-based optimizer, a multithreaded server, a database monitoring tool, and multiplexed online redo logs. Oracle DBA Willard Baird II examines each of these facilities, and provides guidelines you can use to tune your Oracle7 database for the best possible performance.
From the Editor by David M. Kalman (How client/server technology blurs the lines between development job functions.)
C/S Deployment by Robert C. Bolt (Finding your way to client/server may be confusing. Here's a road map.)
Enterprise C/S by Judith Hurwitz (Microsoft doesn't offer a "high-end" client/server toolset, but watch out for VB.)
SQL Explorer by Joe Celko (What's the deal with duplicates? Joe sheds some light on this hotly debated topic.)
C/S Developer by David Linthicum (NeXT Computer's Enterprise Object Framework (EOF) demonstrates the advantages of object-oriented development.)
Desktop DBMS by Tom Spitzer (A real-life Paradox for Windows business application reveals its flexibility and power.)
Server Side by Josh Price and Bharat Vijay (No, not everyone has gone relational. Here's a close look at Titanium, MDBS' network model database engine.)
Hands-On Reviews Edited by Marjorie Thorne
Centerview Software's Choreo for SQLWindows 1.0 automates "data choreography" and speeds development.
Platinum SQL Coder 1.5, a code and object management system, helps developers manage their database projects.
Soft Notes, new client/server database products and upgrades.
Sharpen your pencils: A compilation of Joe Celko's favorite SQL puzzles (and a new puzzle too).
IBM's Janet Perna previews DB2 Version 2 for Unix.