The definitive book on Oracle's Rdb database. Written by a team of bestselling database experts, including a principal product architect, this is unquestionably the definitive book on Oracle's Rdb8, the latest version of the powerful database for advanced enterprise applications. Rdb: A Comprehensive Guide, Third Edition teaches administrators, programmers, database designers and IT managers the critical components and functions of the new version 8 and explains how to develop powerful Rdb8 programs. The book specifically addresses new Rdb8 management, tuning and scalability tools and describes the new Rdb/NT Workbench for Windows NT. No other source gives readers the authoritative and timely information provided by Rdb: A Comprehensive Guide, Third Edition. Only book on Rdb8 Written by Rdb8 experts from Oracle, including the principal product architect Explains how to use Rdb8 on both Windows NT and OpenVMS

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems, and Peer-to-Peer Computing, DBISP2P 2003, held in Berlin, Germany in September 2003 as a satellite event of VLDB 2003. The 16 revised full papers presented together with the abstract of an invited contribution were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on structure in P2P networks, semantics and data integration, data streams and publish/subscribe, and data structures and query processing.

Here is all the practical, hands-on information you need to build, manage and maintain a heterogeneous computing environment with hardware, software, and network equipment from a number of different vendors. Packed with real-world case studies and proven techniques for integrating disparate platforms, operating systems and servers, Handbook of Heterogeneous Computing is a one-stop, non-nonsense guide that shows you how to: * port and develop applications in a heterogeneous environment * manage desktops, data access, communications, and security in a heterogeneous environment * and build distributed heterogeneous systems What is best for your installation? Should you standardize on the Windows environment for both production applications and office applications? Should you adopt the Windows NT workstation as a standard desktop and use Windows NT as the network operating system? Handbook of Heterogeneous Computing details the advantages and disadvantages of these and other approaches. The book also explains: * the arts of porting and developing applications in a heterogeneous environment using Java, CGI/Perl, and other tools * how to build interfaces with mainframe legacy systems * how to use CORBA to integrate distributed database systems while at the same time managing database gateways and interoperability * how to manage interlan switching, multicast networking structures, SNA-LAN integration, and all aspects of enterprise networks * and how to use Kerberos, firewalls, PGP, RSA public keys, and other tools to assure security in heterogeneous environments. Heterogeneous computing is here to stay. It is therefore up to corporate end-users to make competing products fit into their environments efficiently, effectively and economically. Handbook of Heterogeneous Computing gives you t

* Completely updated and includes features up to V6.1 * Co-authored by a member of the Rdb Engineering Group at Digital Equipment Corporation * Provides information on Rdb OSF/1 version Rdb is now entering its tenth year as Digital's flagship database product. With a wealth of tuning and administration options, Rdb has become an increasingly sophisticated product and is the most popular database management system on Digital OpenVMS platforms today. Rdb: A Comprehensive Guide, Second Edition is a must for anyone involved in the design and implementation of the DEC Rdb databases. Completely updated and revised, this is the only book that discusses the latest version of Rdb, covering all features up to and including V6.0. This up-to-date second edition also examines some of the features of Rdb support on OSF/1. Database designers, administrators, programmers, as well as newcomers to Rdb will find this book an indispensable reference for understanding and utilizing the Rdb database.