PCM Guide to Client Server Databases

Overview

Now the hottest corporate computing architecture available today, Client/Server technology connects the high powered processing strengths of database servers with the diversity of client-based application tools. Combining database, connectivity, and front-end technologies, Client/Server architecture can give users access to mission critical data from almost any data source for convenient use within their application tool of choice. In his second edition of Guide to Client/Server Databases, author and PC Magazine contributor Joe Salemi provides new insight into the benefits of this architecture, with updated coverage of the past, present, and future of database technology; the latest Client/Server database releases, including SYBASE System 10, IBM's DB2/2, and Borland InterBase; platform productivity PC, workstation, minicomputer, and mainframe products and issues; hierarchical, network, flat file, and relational database models and systems; sophisticated Client/Server technologies, including stored procedures, triggers, parallel processing, distributed databases, and others; application development and data access front-ends such as PowerBuilder and SQL Windows; and Innovative Client/Server uses with Lotus Notes and others - for groupware applications. Plus, updated appendices provide the largest information on vendors, references, as well as comparative charts of Client/Server databases.

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