From: morgan@unix.SRI.COM (Morgan Kaufmann)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Client Server Book Announcement
Keywords: SQL, Client,Server,Book
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:22:56 GMT
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA




          Morgan Kaufmann announces the publication of

                      A GUIDE TO DEVELOPING
                          CLIENT/SERVER
                               SQL
                          APPLICATIONS

                               by
                                
                        SETRAG KHOSHAFIAN
                 (Portfolio Technologies, Inc.)

                           ARVOLA CHAN
                   (Versant Object Technology)

                            ANNA WONG
                        (CLaM Associates)

                         HARRY K.T. WONG
                        (Nomadic Systems)


This book is a practical introduction to DB management for
applications programmers, DBAs and workstation users entering the
client/server environment. It includes a tutorial on DB management
concepts, explained with standard SQL, and offers a comprehensive
survey of client/server technology. The authors provide a balanced
presentation of database management and distributed application
development, with case studies comparing the capabilities and
interfaces of dominant database servers such as EE, RDB, Oracle and
SQL Server. The focus is on relational database management with
special emphasis on transaction processing, data integrity,
security and application programming interfaces for major
commercial products. This book is appropriate for anyone interested
in databases, software engineering and MIS applications
programming.

Includes:
- Features and performances of commercial DB servers
- Individual SQL dialects compared to the standard
- Server administration requirements
- Benchmarking techniques
- SQL applications to heterogeneous environments
- Application programming interfaces to the servers
- Future directions for SQL Client/Server Architectures

ISBN: 1-55860-147-3
634 pages, paperback
Price: $32.95




                        Table of Contents


1:  An Introduction to Client-Server Technology

2:  Relational Database Design

3:  Data Definition

4:  Data Manipulation
     
5:  Transaction Processing

6:  Database Administration and Maintenance

7:  Performance Tuning and Opitimization

8:  Benchmarking

9:  Application Programming Interface

10: Distributed Database Systems

11: SQL Extensions for Next Generation Applications

12: Summary

Appendix: Guidelines for Client Application Software   
Bibliography
Index

ISBN 1-55860-147-3, $ 32.95 U.S. 634  pages

Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc

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From: arlie@hpsad.sad.hp.com (Arlie Haig)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 01:17:52 GMT
Subject: GIS contacts, info wanted
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