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Evolution of the High Performance Database is an up-to-the-minute guide to the most exciting trends in database technology, and how they'll impact you and your organization. In this book, the industry's premier technologists walk you through today's most revolutionary database developments: Databases on the Web, Data Warehousing, and Object Directional DBMS's. Leading database experts from Informix Software and its partners also take a close look at issues of relational database performance, reviewing the most ...
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Evolution of the High Performance Database is an up-to-the-minute guide to the most exciting trends in database technology, and how they'll impact you and your organization. In this book, the industry's premier technologists walk you through today's most revolutionary database developments: Databases on the Web, Data Warehousing, and Object Directional DBMS's. Leading database experts from Informix Software and its partners also take a close look at issues of relational database performance, reviewing the most advanced techniques in scalability, extensibility, migration, optimization, tuning, GUI design and usability. You'll discover techniques you can use now to enhance database performance - as well as ways to position yourself for the future.

This book is a selection of the best articles from Informix Tech Notes, which is normally available only to customers. Contributions from leading technologists, such as Michael Stonebraker and Bill Inmon, describe the evolution of RDBMS and the impact new technologies are having on the traditional models. Articles cover the implications of Web development, object-relational technology, data warehousing, High-Performance Database issues, GUI criteria, and usability requirements. Although the articles are written for a technical audience of developers and designers, any reader tracking IT trends will find this book useful. The book also functions as a good resource for Informix products and solutions.

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A compilation of articles from Informix Software Inc.'s technical journal "Informix Tech Notes", overviewing trends in database technology and their potential impact on organizations, for users, developers, and managers of databases. Looks at developments such as databases on the Web, data warehousing, and object relational DBMSs, and explores issues of relational database performance including scalability, extensibility, migration, optimization, and GUI design. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780135947302
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
  • Publication date: 1/28/1997
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 459
  • Product dimensions: 7.29 (w) x 9.55 (h) x 0.92 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
1 Notes from the Web Frontier 3
2 The Web/Database Revolution 11
3 The World Wide Web: The Internet Unleashed 17
4 Using the Database to Manage the Web Site 39
5 World Wide Web Application Development 53
6 Using the INFORMIX-4GL CGI Interface Kit 59
7 Tools for Internet Development 85
8 Object-Relational DBMS - The Next Wave 95
9 An Introduction to Illustra's ORDBMS Concepts 113
10 Parallel Processing and the Data Warehouse 133
11 Six Challenges Facing Data Warehousing Managers 147
12 Implementing a Pilot Data Warehouse Using INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server 155
13 Practical Data Warehouse Considerations 169
14 Data Replication: Uses and Required Features 177
15 Multithreading in INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server 193
16 Implementing High Availability Informix Solutions with UNIX 209
17 Planning and Tuning of Fragmentation Strategies in INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server, Version 7.1 223
18 Schema Optimization 257
19 Customizing SuperTable Functionality 265
20 Using SMI Tables in INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server to Broadcast Messages to Users 277
21 A Database Comparison Utility 283
22 Script Which Frees Shared Memory Segments in INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server 309
23 Solid-State Disk: A Solution to I/O Bottlenecks 317
24 Disk Allocation for Large Informix Databases on HP-UX Systems 333
25 Raising the Standard for Enterprise Document Management in Informix Environments 363
26 Informix Database Performance Tuning for Document Management Systems 375
27 GUI Design Considerations 387
28 Good Design Concepts for Informix Applications 397
29 Exploring the Functionality of INFORMIX-NewEra 419
30 Comparing and Contrasting User Interaction in INFORMIX-4GL and INFORMIX-NewEra 435
31 An Overview of the VCL 443
32 An Overview of SuperTables 447
Index 451
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