Table of Contents - May 1996 Vol. 9 No. 5

Features

The Sybase Enterprise By Theresa Rigney
Even though Sybase's flagship product is SQL Server, the company insists that it's "not just a database company" anymore. This article takes a look at the Sybase product strategy and corporate vision, including its move toward Internet-enabled applications. An interview with Sybase Executive Vice President Robert Epstein accompanies the article.

Visual Xbase By P. L. Olympia, Ph.D.
The current crop of Visual Xbase implementations has given new meaning to the concept of rapid application development. This article discusses three popular Visual Xbase implementations: Computer Associates' Visual Objects, Borland's Visual dBASE, and Microsoft's Visual FoxPro.

Data Access Strategies By Steve Roti
Index searching techniques boost performance by reducing disk I/O. This article focuses on the indexing features and access mechanisms available in today's SQL DBMSs.

The Successes and Failures of Application Development Tools By David S. Linthicum
Client/server application development tools have flooded the market in recent years. Contributing Editor David Linthicum explains how these tools differ, how they're similar, and how they need to mature for the next generation of client/server computing.

Columns

From the Editor by Maurice Frank
Web technologies and client/server systems: Don't buy the hype.

Enterprise C/S by Judith Hurwitz
Will new client/server technologies revive centralized computing?

Data Warehouse Architect by Ralph Kimball
How to tame monster dimensions.

SQL for Smarties by Joe Celko
"Nontraditional" databases, and Joe's tutorial on SQL trees continues.

C/S Developer by David S. Linthicum
Why Intranets may cause the next major shift in client/server tools.

Server Side by Martin Rennhackkamp
An in-depth tutorial on database triggers.

Desktop DBMS by Tom Spitzer
Rethinking Paradox 7.0.

Products

Hands-On Reviews Edited by Clara H. Parkes

askSam Systems' askSam 3.0 Professional database lets you collect and organize data and text from databases, email, Web sites, news feeds, and your own input.

Visible System Corp.'s Visible Analyst Workbench 6.0 is an integrated CASE toolkit that provides graphical analysis, design, and data modeling capabilities in one easy-to-use package.

Soft Notes: product news.

Departments

Letters

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

Client/Server Connection
News from around the industry.

INTERNET SYSTEMS

Included with this copy of DBMS is the first publication to focus exclusively on delivering large-scale Internet-based, Internet-enabled, or Intranet applications.
See the Table of Contents with links to full text of all articles.
Also visit the Internet Systems Web site at http://www.internetsystems.com