Keeping an Eye on Your Database Server by David S. Linthicum
Many of today's client/server systems are so complex, they've quickly grown out of control. Developers, DBAs, and network administrators don't know how to monitor client/server systems to spot current or potential problems, nor do they have the proper tools to monitor each client/server component. In this article, Contributing Editor David Linthicum discusses some of the tools that can keep an eye on a database server, or several database servers, at the same time -- even when you can't.
Telephony and IVR by P. L. Olympia, Ph.D.
Although computer telephony integration (CTI) has been around for years, it has experienced explosive growth fueled by the move from proprietary hardware and software into standards that are easily implementable on a PC. This article examines interactive voice response (IVR) CTI applications that let callers query or modify databases from a touch-tone phone, and explains how to develop IVR applications on a shoestring budget.
Enterprise C/S by Judith Hurwitz
(Tools for accessing the data warehouse.)
Data Warehouse Architect by Ralph Kimball
(How to optimize a data warehouse using aggregrates.)
SQL Explorer by Joe Celko
(Joe takes the summer off from traveling to contemplate the future of SQL standards, and offers a new SQL puzzle.)
C/S Developer by David Linthicum
(It's time for the yearly test drive of JAM, JYACC Inc.'s multiplatform client/server development environment.)
Desktop DBMS by Tom Spitzer
(Access for Windows 95: MIS's worst nightmare, an excellent DBMS, or both?)
Server Side by Josh Price and Bharat Vijay
(With its new Common Server approach, IBM's DB2/2 catches up with the competition.)
Hands-On Reviews Edited by Clara H. Parkes
Pilot software's LightShip SMIS 1.1, a set of templates for monitoring and managing sales and marketing data stored in the LightShip Server multidimensional database.
Software Quality Assurance's SQA Process and SQA LoadTest, two tools for the automated testing of Windows-based GUI client/server applications.
Soft Notes, new client/server database products and upgrades.
Informix's VP of Marketing Steve Sommer explains how Informix will take over the Unix-based database market
Database/Internet integration, and the annual DBMS case studies special.