Table of Contents - January 1996 Vol. 9 No. 1

Features	Columns
Visual Basic 4.0: Ready for the Enterprise? by David S. Linthicum With Windows 95 and the subsequent release of Visual Basic 4.0, Microsoft has staked its claim in the enterprise development tool marketplace. This in-depth article reviews VB 4.0, assesses its suitability for the development of strategic enterprise systems, and analyzes VB's new database access, application partitioning, team development, and OLE automation features. DBMS-Oriented Interactive Voice Response, Part 2 by P. L. Olympia, Ph.D. In the final part of this two-part series, Contributing Editor Pete Olympia explores some alternatives for building computer-telephone integration (CTI) applications, including Periphonics Corp.'s VPS/sp toolset and Voysys Corp.'s VoysAccess System. A program listing is available. Building a DBA Repository System by Martin Rennhackkamp The purpose of a repository system is to record and manage information about the data models and the designs and implementations of enterprise databases, applications, and systems. But can you apply these application-centric repository principles to physical database management? Yes, you can. This article explains how. The Evolution of CASE Tools by Maurice Frank Most of today's development projects use some kind of modeling tool to design, generate, and manage databases. This article reviews the leading CASE (Computer-Aided Software Engineering) and modeling tools for client/server development, and examines the emerging stratification of the CASE/modeling category into different classes of tools for different kinds of data models: physical, logical, object, and process.	From the Editor by David M. Kalman Check out DBMS's Buyer's Guide and Client/Server Sourcebook CD-ROM with this issue! Enterprise C/S by Judith Hurwitz The battle rages on for the dominant client/server infrastructure. Data Warehouse Architect by Ralph Kimball Why a freshman in business needs a Ph.D. in SQL to do simple comparisons. SQL Explorer by Joe Celko Joe takes some time out to relate his travel experiences and ANSI work, and provides a new SQL puzzle. C/S Developer by David S. Linthicum Sun Microcomputer's HotJava takes Web-based application development to a new level. Desktop DBMS by Tom Spitzer Text retrieval and management comes of age with next-generation search engines.

Features

Columns

Visual Basic 4.0: Ready for the Enterprise?
by David S. Linthicum
With Windows 95 and the subsequent release of Visual Basic 4.0, Microsoft has staked its claim in the enterprise development tool marketplace. This in-depth article reviews VB 4.0, assesses its suitability for the development of strategic enterprise systems, and analyzes VB's new database access, application partitioning, team development, and OLE automation features.

DBMS-Oriented Interactive Voice Response, Part 2
by P. L. Olympia, Ph.D.
In the final part of this two-part series, Contributing Editor Pete Olympia explores some alternatives for building computer-telephone integration (CTI) applications, including Periphonics Corp.'s VPS/sp toolset and Voysys Corp.'s VoysAccess System. A program listing is available.

Building a DBA Repository System
by Martin Rennhackkamp
The purpose of a repository system is to record and manage information about the data models and the designs and implementations of enterprise databases, applications, and systems. But can you apply these application-centric repository principles to physical database management? Yes, you can. This article explains how.

The Evolution of CASE Tools
by Maurice Frank
Most of today's development projects use some kind of modeling tool to design, generate, and manage databases. This article reviews the leading CASE (Computer-Aided Software Engineering) and modeling tools for client/server development, and examines the emerging stratification of the CASE/modeling category into different classes of tools for different kinds of data models: physical, logical, object, and process.

From the Editor
by David M. Kalman
Check out DBMS's Buyer's Guide and Client/Server Sourcebook CD-ROM with this issue!

Enterprise C/S
by Judith Hurwitz
The battle rages on for the dominant client/server infrastructure.

Data Warehouse Architect
by Ralph Kimball
Why a freshman in business needs a Ph.D. in SQL to do simple comparisons.

SQL Explorer
by Joe Celko
Joe takes some time out to relate his travel experiences and ANSI work, and provides a new SQL puzzle.

C/S Developer
by David S. Linthicum
Sun Microcomputer's HotJava takes Web-based application development to a new level.

Desktop DBMS
by Tom Spitzer
Text retrieval and management comes of age with next-generation search engines.

Products

Hands-On Reviews
Edited by Clara H. Parkes

Magic Software's Magic 6.0, a true "no code" development environment for client/server.

Cognos Inc.'s PowerPlay 4.1, an analysis tool that emphasizes crosstabs and graphics; and Impromptu 3.0, a report writer based on templates.

Soft Notes, new client/server database products and upgrades.

Departments

Letters

Event Alerter
A calendar of conferences, trade shows, and seminars.

Client/Server Connection
News from around the industry.

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