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When someone wants to find out the latest and greatest about new or important computer topics, one of the approaches involves finding appropriate magazines and educational courses on the topic and scanning the subjects highlighted on the cover and in the course, and often if one is not that familiar with the subject there are many new words, acronyms and product names. For this topic, key magazines such as DBMS, Infoworld, Datacenter Manager, Datamation and others can be reviewed. Here is a "small" sampling of some of the topics found; some of these may be topics new to some of you.
Oracle vs. SQL Server
Windows C++ APPS
More on using FoxPro Fields
Emerald Bay and C++
Client-server APPS
Dbase IV Server edition
Linking spreadsheets to databases
Casetool
Case tools round up
Barcode scanners
Power networking
SQL Siblings
SQL Tutorial
SQL for DBAs
SQL Front end
Graphics in Dbase
What's new with clipper 5.01
Object Vision
Sharp Xbase Report writer
Desqview
Desqview API Toolkits
Xbase Accounting machine
Foxpro 2.0 API Access to internals
Using FOXPRO memo fields
FoxPro Profiler
UNIX vs OS/2
Distributed databases
Network management
Superdrivers
Business of datacentre management
Datacenter eis
IS Cost reduction
Entrepreneurial datacenter
Product reviews:
ABC Flowcharter; DeltaFile; dQuery, Filemaker PRO SQL for Windows, Valkyrie, dSalvage, ScriptView
We will deal with many of these and related concepts in this article.
INTRODUCTION
Data processing has changed dramatically in the past 30 years; these changes have been evolutionary. Processing data with conventional files fulfilled a need that existed during the 1960s. As users are exposed to data processing, they find additional ways to use the services. Many different departments within an organization now require access to the same data. With conventional file processing, data are often duplicated in multiple files. Often data are stored in different formats in each of the files in which they are stored. On occasion, data which are stored in multiple files do not agree and time has to be expended to resolve these differences. If two Or more departments must share data, a potential security exposure exists.
Processing with a database management system offers a number of advantages. The location of the database management system within the software chain provides data independence. With a database management system,...