Journal of Database Management articles from July 2000

Journal of Database Management archives from July 2000

Using Business Rules Within a Design Process of Active Databases.(Technology Information)
July 1, 2000... Current design methods for information systems do not consider rules at the design level. In systemic methods such as "Structured Analysis Design Technique" (SADT) (Yourdon, 1979), rules are considered as a part of the design process but they...

Benchmarking OODBs with a Generic Tool.(Technology Information)
July 1, 2000... The need to evaluate the performances of Object-Oriented Database Management Systems (OODBMSs) is important both to designers and users. Performance evaluation is useful to designers to determine elements of architecture, choose between caching...

Performance Evaluation of Parallel S-trees.(Technology Information)
July 1, 2000... The S-tree is a dynamic height-balanced tree similar in structure to B+ trees. S-trees store fixed length bit-strings, which are called signatures. Signatures are used for indexing textbases, relational, object oriented and extensible databases...

Justifying Data Warehousing Investments.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2000... Organizations are increasingly recognizing the importance of information technology. Many large IT projects in the area of data warehousing and data mining have been taken up in the last few years. While many data warehousing and data mining...

The Folklore of Normalization.(Technology Information)
July 1, 2000... The practice of data processing includes creating data models in the course of system planning and requirements definition work. Most data modelers use a technique that combines a variant of the Entity-Relationship modeling approach introduced...

Data Warehousing: Architecture and Implementation.(by Mark Humphries, Michael W. Hawkins and Michelle C. Day)(Review)
July 1, 2000... Data Warehousing: Architecture and Implementation By Mark Humphries, Michael W. Hawkins and Michelle C. Day Prentice Hall PTR, 1999 347 pages; $39.99; ISBN 0-13-080902-0 http://www.phptr.com B. Inmon (Inmon and Kelly, 1994), the...