Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
Advent of the Multidatabase | |
Developing a Corporate Database Concept | |
Distributed versus Centralized Database Solutions | |
Managing the Networked Database | |
Treating the Networked Database as a Corporate Resource | |
Computer Professionals and Database Challenges | |
Schemata, Dictionaries, and Protocols | |
Schemata, Metaphors, and Distributed Databases | |
Can We Solve Cross-Database Problems through Schemata? | |
The Increasingly Sophisticated Data Dictionary | |
Information Resource Dictionary System (IRDS) | |
ANSI SQL and the SQL Access Group | |
Application Programming Interface, Formats and Protocols, and Remote Data Access | |
Applications with Federated Databases | |
IBM's Distributed Relational Data Architecture (DRDA) | |
Development of the DataLens Concept and Its Productization | |
The California Intelligent Database Assistant (CALIDA) | |
The Data Access Integrated Services (DAIS) as a Solution to Heterogeneous Distributed Databases | |
Multivendor Integration Architecture and the Communications Environment of the 1990s | |
The Development of Software-Oriented Specifications | |
Common Goals to Be Reached by MIA and the SQL Access Group | |
Index | |
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