This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems, DNIS 2002, held in Aizu, Japan in December 2002. The 16 revised full papers presented with five invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on information interchange and management systems, Web data management systems, data management systems, networked information systems applications, and networked information systems implementations.

Oracle9i PL/SQL: A Developers Guide is intended for both intermediate-level Oracle developers who are designing or coding applications in SQL and PL/SQL and for advanced PL/SQL programmers who need to learn new PL/SQL 9ifeatures. In addition to providing developers with detailed coverage of the PL/SQL 9i language itself, author -->Bulusu Lakshman--> covers the techniques of using PL/SQL 9i for server-side applications and provides the methodology for implementing robust applications. Lakshman also mentors developers in implementing effective techniques for real-world and code-centric Oracle applications that, in the long run, will save them time and energy.

Oracle9i PL/SQL: A Developers Guide is a solid source for the development of Oracle9i PL/SQL applications. Developers incorporating these technologies into new applications and those migrating from earlier versions will both find Lakshman's expert treatment of the topic beneficial.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Distributed Communities on the Web, DCW 2002, held in Sydney, Australia in April 2002.The 25 revised full papers presented together with an introductory overview and outline of the field were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on adaptive networks, collaborative systems, languages for the Web, and adaptive distributed systems.

* No other book covers all existing versions of SQL Server - this one does. * No other book contains as detailed explanations of the inner workings of the authentication and authorization processes. * This book is the result of nearly two years of research, and every example has been tested exhaustively to ensure the book is technically accurate. * Lewis has been a contributing author to SQL Server Magazine since its inception and trained hundreds of students on SQL Server since 1995; therefore, he knows how to make complex topics understandable to a wide range of people. * Lewis has consulted with several Fortune 500 companies on various aspects of database administration, and the book draws on his experience to highlight the critical weaknesses commonly found in even large companies with well-trained administrators. * If properly applied, the recommendations in this book result in a safer, more secure database environment. For example, this book recommended configuring firewalls to block the traffic used by the "Slammer" virus long before the virus became news. Those who read this book and followed its advice slept soundly the weekend that "Slammer" was taking the Internet down.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2003, held in Chengdu, China in August 2003. The 30 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 258 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Web; XML; text management; data mining; bioinformatics; peer-to-peer systems; service networks; time series, similarity, and ontologies; information filtering; queries and optimization; multimedia and views; and systems demonstrations.

This book teaches you all of the core concepts behind using the database, shows you the tools and techniques you need to master, and gives you practical examples of programming Oracle. teaching you Oracle technology. need to use Oracle databases with confidence. Oracle is the world's leading relational database. used properly, is the fastest and most scaleable database on which to build enterprise scale applications. an overnight job. this book have that experience. application or administering the database and can guarantee you that the techniques taught in this book are proven and have led them through many successful implementations.

* Presents an innovative, philosophical approach to Oracle database administration, and shows how to think about the whole complex problem of performance tuning, how to break it down, how to root out the cause of performance bottlenecks. *Covers all practical aspects of Oracle performance tuning. * Filled with hands-on lessons and accounts. * Teaches an innovative and effective "Physician to Magician" approach, showing how to understand the problem, uncover the root cause, and choose and implement the most effective solution.

Access is the most complex and intimidating application in Microsoft Office, but you'll tame it quickly with this book. You'll learn how to design complete databases, maintain them, search for valuable nuggets of information, and build attractive forms for quick-and-easy data entry in no time. With "Microsoft Access 2010: The Missing Manual", you'll even delve into the black art of Access programming by learning valuable tricks and techniques to automate common tasks - even if you've never touched a line of code before. Discover new pre-built databases you can customize to fit your needs, and learn how Access' new complex data feature will simplify your life. With plenty of downloadable examples, this objective and engaging book will turn any Access neophyte into a true master. Follow step-by-step instructions for creating and perfecting an Access database, and learn methods for using and maintaining it. Understand Access' interface, and focus on new time-saving features. Learn basic Access programming quickly and easily. Get good database design practices and tips from the pros.

"Real-World SQL-DMO for SQL Server" delves into the details of administering Microsoft SQL Server using the SQL-DMO object library. Authors Allan Mitchell and Mark Allison have packed the book with explanations and working code that will help you use the library to its full potential. Additionally, Mitchell and Allison offer advice about when (and when "not") to use the SQL-DMO application programming interface (API).

The code in this book has been tried and tested at sites where database administrators routinely manage more than 50 SQL Servers, ensuring that the techniques can be implemented on environments of almost any scale.

Whether youre a developer or a database administrator, this book will take you to the next level in SQL Server administration.

This book is not just another theoretical text on statistics or data mining. Instead, it's designed for database administrators who want to buttress their understanding of statistics to support data mining and customer relationship management analytics and who want to use Structured Query Language (SQL). Each chapter is independent and self-contained with examples tailored to business applications. Each analysis technique is expressed in a mathematical format that lends itself to coding either as a database query or as a Visual Basic procedure using SQL. Each chapter includes: formulas (how to perform the required analysis, numerical example using data from a database, data visualization and presentation options (graphs, charts, tables), SQL procedures for extracting the desired results, and data mining techniques.

Cooperative Information Systems have emerged as a central concept in a variety of applications, projects, and systems in the new era of e-business. The conference at which the papers in this volume were presented was the ninth international conference on the topic of Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2001), and was held in Trento, Italy on September 5-7, 2001. Like the previous conferences, CoopIS 2001 has been remarkably successful in bringing together representatives of many di?erent ?elds, spanning the entire range of e?ective web-based Cooperative Information Systems, and with interests ranging from industrial experience to original research concepts and results. The 29 papers collected here out of the 79 ones that were submitted, dem- strate well the range of results achieved in several areas such as agent te- nologies, models and architectures, web systems, information integration, m- dleware technologies, federated and multi-database systems. The papers th- selves, however, do not convey the lively excitement of the conference itself, and the continuing spirit of cooperation and communication across disciplines that has been the hallmark of these conferences. We would especially like to thank our keynote speakers: Philip A. Bernstein (Microsoft Research, USA), Edward E. Cobb (BEA Systems, USA), and Ma- izio Lenzerini (Universit'a di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy) for providing a portrait of the best contemporary work in the ?eld. We would also like to thank the many people who made CoopIS 2001 possible.

Essential ColdFusion fast gives the reader a working knowledge of ColdFusion and how to use it and how it integrates with other web-based technologies. Lots of working examples are included throughout, all of which are also available via a web-site that is powered by ColdFusion, which shows exactly how they work.Matthew Norman has written a 'get started quick' guide to ColdFusion, in the style of the Essential series, describing the setting up of a development system. He talks about how to achieve this on a budget, using techniques that are applicable to large scale operations as well.Anyone with a working knowledge of the internet, and who wants to learn more about what ColdFusion does and how they can start using it quickly, will find this book a real help.

With the development of the World-Wide Web, data management problems have branched out from the traditional framework in which tabular data is processed under the strict control of an application, and address today the rich variety of information that is found on the Web, considering a variety of ?exible envir- ments under which such data can be searched, classi ed , and processed. Da- base systems are coming forward today in a new role as the primary backend for the information provided on the Web. Most of today's Web accesses trigger some form of content generation from a database, while electronic commerce often triggers intensive DBMS-based applications. The research community has begun to revise data models, query languages, data integration techniques, - dexes, query processing algorithms, and transaction concepts in order to cope with the characteristics and scale of the data on the Web. New problems have been identi ed , among them goal-oriented information gathering, management of semi-structured data, or database-style query languages for Web data, to name just a few. The International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB) is a series of workshops intended to bring together researchers interested in the interaction between databases and the Web. This year's WebDB 2000 was the third in the series, and was held in Dallas, Texas, in conjunction with the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data.

This book is the definitive reference on PL/SQL, considered throughout the database community to be the best Oracle programming book available. Like its predecessors, this 6th edition of Oracle PL/SQL Programming covers language fundamentals, advanced coding techniques, and best practices for using Oracle's powerful procedural language. Thoroughly updated for Oracle Database 12c, this edition reveals new PL/SQL features and provides extensive code samples, ranging from simple examples to complex and complete applications, in the book and on the companion website. It's an indispensable reference for both novices and experienced Oracle programmers.

From seasoned developer and trainer Rob Macdonald comes "Serious ADO: Universal Data Access with Visual Basic," which teaches experienced Visual Basic developers how to make the most of ADO, Microsoft's flagship product for database access. "Serious ADO" covers the full range of uses for ADO, from basic use of the ADO technology to specialized topics and advanced techniques that will benefit even the most experienced developers.

The first part of the book provides thorough coverage of ADO's components and what they can do. Along the way, Macdonald offers real-world code examples along with complete explanations of exactly what is occurring at each stage of the development process. This part also covers some of the key concepts upon which ADO programming is based, such as locking and transactions, connection pooling, marshalling, and Inter Process Communication, among others.

The second part of the book addresses the use of ADO in real-world development scenarios. Here, Macdonald demonstrates advanced user interface creation, including new ways to control the binding process. You'll also learn how to use Microsoft Transaction Server of COM+ applications to create transactional component-based systems.

The second edition of the best-selling Inside Relational Databases is revised and updated to bring you the most reader-friendly explanation of the relational model and its importance to database designers and builders.Clear explanations make use of examples rather than equations to show you how an understanding of the relational model can make your databases faster, more flexible and thoroughly fit for their purpose.Dr Mark Whitehorn has an extensive understanding of relational database theory and his popular and long running database column in the UK's "Personal Computer World" has already made database theory accessible to thousands.Bill Marklyn has an intimate knowledge of relational databases and was the Development Manager who oversaw the entire design of the first two major releases of Microsoft's highly successful database product, Access.Together they make a great team, illuminating a tricky subject with substance and style.Reviews from the first edition of Inside Relational Databases:"Quite simply - superb. By making relational databases understandable, Mark Whitehorn and Bill Marklyn have achieved far more than most. Making the subject interesting and entertaining as well puts these two authors firmly in a class of their own."- Neil Fawcett, Group Technical Editor, VNU Business Publications"PCW and Amazon.co.uk contributor Mark Whitehorn is that rare combination - an expert in his field, databases, and a fine writer too, with a talent for honing a complex subject down to its essentials."- Tamsin Todd, Computer & Internet Editor, Amazon.co.uk"Inside Relational Databases is excellent. It is clearly and concisely written and full of humorous asides which ease the reader through an otherwise weighty topic. Probably the most engaging technical book I have read."- Paul McGowan

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems, POS-9, held in Lillehammer, Norway, in September 2001.The 19 revised full papers presented together with seven session overviews and an epilogue were selected during two rounds of reviewing and revision for inclusion in the proceedings. Among the topics addressed are persistence-enabled optimization, Java applications, JVM, systems architecture, persistent GIS, data sharing middleware, polylingual persistence, transactions, distributed object systems, object stores, garbage collectors, WWW and persistence, persistent computation implementation, orthogonally persistent Java, and personal information devices.

Welcome to 00lS'01 and Calgary! This is the 7th International Conference on Object-Oriented Information Systems (OOlS) that focus on Object-Oriented and Web-Based Frameworks for Information Systems. In the last few years we've seen significant new development in this field, from one-off design technologies to reusable frameworks, and from web applications to bioinformatic systems. We perceive that information processing is one of the most important activities of human beings. Object-orientation and frameworks have been the main-stream technologies for design and implementation of large-scale and complex information systems. Recent research advances and industrial innovations in information systems modeling and Internet applications have explored the new trends in shifting information system vendors from component and system developers to services providers. Users of information systems are increasingly demanding higher performance, mobility, and personalization in order to realize the dream to access and obtain necessary information anywhere and anytime. The new development requires the investigation of new architectures, frameworks, processes, and inter-connectivity of information systems at society, organization, team, and personal levels. The 00lS'01 Proceedings has put together a program of 53 papers from leading researchers and practitioners in the field of object technology and information systems.

Designed for both new programmers and those experienced in other languages, this book presents the core features of Oracle's PL/SQL language in an easy-to-read format. Learning Oracle PL/SQL will bring programmers up to speed on the most important aspects of PL/SQL, including web and Internet programming. Updated through Oracle9i, includes sample programs downloadable from examples.oreilly.com/learnoracle.

If you are new to Access 2000 or already use an alternative database application and you want to switch to Access 2000 this book gives you all the essential information you need using lots of examples.Topics covered in this book include:- How to use the Access interface- How to use Access objects to create a simple database- How to use built in functions- How to create tables- How to create forms- How to create queries to select and update data- How to create reports- How to create macros- How to use object events and create proceduresEssential Access 2000 fast is designed for professionals or students who need to learn the maximum in the minimum time and to develop databases fast.

"SQL Server: Common Problems, Tested Solutions" consists of over 500 common and not-so-common questions that users of all versions of SQL Server are likely to ask. Most of these problems and solutions are either undocumented or poorly documented in Microsofts own literature. Answers are as concise and to the point as possible.

Each FAQ article in the book contains helpful information about the applicable SQL Server version, related FAQ articles, related Microsoft Knowledge Base articles, and other reference works. This book's dual indices and cross-references allow the reader to easily find related FAQ articles in other categories.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics!Get started using Access 2007 right away--the QuickSteps way. Color screenshots and clear instructions show you how to use all the new and improved features. Follow along and learn to work with the new Office interface and ribbon, create databases and tables, and enter and edit data. You'll also find out how to retrieve information, create forms, and generate reports. Plus, you can flip straight to the information you need easily using the color-coded tabs. Get the book that gets you started using Access 2007 in no time. In each chapter: Shortcuts for accomplishing common tasks Need-to-know facts in concise narrative Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things Bonus information related to the topic being covered Errors and pitfalls to avoid

If you want to learn how to write stored procedures and triggers for Microsoft SQL Server, "Code Centric: T-SQL Programming with Stored Procedures and Triggers" is the book for you. Youll learn real-world coding and how to build non-trivial applications. All of the examples covered in the book are available for download, making it easier to work through over 5,000 lines of sample code.

While there is extensive coverage of the new functionality in SQL Server 2000such as UDFs (user-defined functions)you can use this book effectively for virtually any version of SQL Server6.x, 7.0, or 2000.

Datamanagementsystemsforlargeapplicationsseekinfrastructuralsupport fromdatabasesystemsanddistributedcomputingsystems. Thesesystems- provewiththechangingrequirementsofapplications. Newresearche?ortsare beingmadetosupportelectroniccommerce(EC)applications,andvoluminous datahandlingapplications. Atthesametime,supporttechniquesarebeingst- iedindataminingandknowledgediscovery,object-relationaldatabasemana- mentsystems,andmobilecomputingsystems. Theinternationalworkshopon DatabasesinNetworkedInformationSystems(DNIS)2000hasbeenorganized toemphasizetheresearchactivityonsupportsystems. DNIS2000isbeingheldon4-6December2000attheUniversityofAizuin Japan. Theworkshopprogramincludesresearchcontributionsandinvitedc- tributions. Aviewofresearchactivityinevolvingdatamanagementsystemsand relatedresearchissueshasbeenprovidedbythesessiononthistopic. Theinvited contributionshavebeencontributedbyDr. QimingChen,Dr. UmeshwarDayal, andDr. MeichunHsu,andbyMasaruKitsuregawa,TakahikoShintani,Takeshi Yoshizawa,andIkoPramudiono. Theworkshopsessionondatabasesystems- cludescontributedpapersbyDr. JayantR. HaritsaandbyProfessorDivyakant AgrawalandDr. AmrElAbbadi. Thesessiononnetworkedinformationsystems includestheinvitedcontributionbyProfessorKrithiRamamritham,Pavan- olasee,AmolKatkar,AnkurPanchbudhe,andPrashantShenoy. Iwouldliketothankthemembersoftheprogramcommitteefortheirs- portandallauthorswhoconsideredDNIS2000inmakingresearchcontributions. Thesponsoringorganizationsandtheorganizingcommitteedeservepraise forthesupporttheyprovided. Anumberofindividualshavecontributedtothe successoftheworkshop. IthankProfessorP. C. P. Bhatt,ProfessorJ. Biskup, Dr. CarlW. Vilbrand,andProfessorM. Kitsuregawa,forprovidingcontinuous supportandencouragement. IhavereceivedinvaluablesupportfromtheUniversityofAizu. Professor ShoichiNoguchi,President,providedencouragementandtookinterestinthe formationoftheplan. IthankProfessorShunjiMori,HeadofDepartmentof ComputerSoftware,formakingthesupportavailable. Iexpressmygratitudeto themembersandchairmanoftheInternationalA?airsCommitteeforsuppo- ingtheworkshopproposal. Ialsothankallmycolleaguesattheuniversityfor theircooperationandsupport. September2000 SubhashBhalla VI Organization Organization DNIS2000internationalworkshopisorganizedbytheDatabaseSystemsLa- ratory,UniversityofAizu,Aizu-WakamatsuCity,Fukushima,Japan. ExecutiveCommittee ProgramChair: S. Bhalla,UniversityofAizu,Japan OrganizingChair: QunJin,UniversityofAizu,Japan ExecutiveChair: N. Bianchi-Berthouze,Universityof Aizu,Japan ProgramCommittee D. Agrawal,UniversityofCalifornia,USA F. Andres,NationalCenterforScienceInformationSystems,Japan A. Basu,VanderbiltUniversity,USA S. Bhalla,UniversityofAizu,Japan P. C. P. Bhatt,KochiTechnicalUniversity,Japan J. Biskup,UniversityofDortmund,Germany U. Dayal,Hewlett-PackardLaboratories,USA S. Grumbach,INRIA,France O. Hammami,UniversityofAizu,Japan J. R. Haritsa,IndianInstituteofScience,India S. Jajodia,GeorgeMasonUniversity,USA Q. Jin,UniversityofAizu,Japan M. Kitsuregawa,UniversityofTokyo,Japan A. Kumar,UniversityofColorado,USA J. Li,UniversityofTsukuba,Japan S. K. Madria,PurdueUniversity,USA G. Mans?eld,TohokuUniversity,Japan P. K. Reddy,UniversityofTokyo,Japan M. V. Sreenivas,SylantroSystems,USA N. Terashima,WasedaUniversity,Japan AdditionalReviewers LawrenceMutenda,InstituteofIndustrialSciences,UniversityofTokyo,Japan TadashiOhmori,UniversityofElectro-Communications,Chofu,Japan SponsoringInstitution InternationalA?airsCommittee,UniversityofAizu, Aizu-WakamatsuCity,FukushimaP. O. 965-8580,Japan TableofContents DataManagementSystems OLAP-BasedDataMiningforBusinessIntelligenceApplications inTelecommunicationsandE-commerce...1 QimingChen,UmeshwarDayal,MeichunHsu WebLogMiningandParallelSQLBasedExecution...20 MasaruKitsuregawa,TakahikoShintani,TakeshiYoshizawa, IkoPramudiono DataProviders-ALanguageExperiment...33 JohnL. Pfaltz JAVAWrappersforAutomatedInteroperability...45 NgomCheng,ValdisBerzins,Luqi,SwapanBhattacharya IssuesinSecuringGISData...65 PramodChandraP. Bhatt SemanticCon?ictsandSolutionsinFuzzyMultidatabaseSystems...80 ZongminM. Ma,WenjunJ. Zhang,WeiyinY. Ma DatabaseSystems:StorageandRetrieval TheWebIstheDatabase...91 JayantR. Haritsa ViewMaintenanceandAnalyticalProcessingatDataWarehouses...107 DivyakantAgrawal,AmrElAbbadi ADesignofParallelR-treeonClusterofWorkstations...119 ShuhuaLai,FenghuaZhu,YongqiangSun GraphicalInterfaceforDesignofGeometricDataStructures...134 TakashiHibi,AlexanderPasko Similarity-BasedQueriesforInformationRetrieval...148 AnaIsabelAguilera,AlbertoRafaelSubero,LeonidJos'eTineo K-DIME:AnAdaptiveSystemtoRetrieveImagesfromtheWEB UsingSubjectiveCriteria...1 57 NadiaBianchi-Berthouze,ToshikazuKato VIII TableofContents NetworkedInformationSystems:Implementation DisseminationofDynamicDataontheInternet...173 KrithiRamamritham,PavanDeolasee,AmolKatkar, AnkurPanchbudhe,PrashantShenoy InformationRetrievalMethod forFrequentlyUpdatedInformationSystem...188 NobuyoshiSato,TakashiYamamoto,YoshihiroNishida, MinoruUehara,HidekiMori BlockingReductioninTwo-PhaseCommitProtocol withMultipleBackupSites...200 P. KrishnaReddy,MasaruKitsuregawa Inter-agentCooperationSupportedbyXMLandCORBA inHeterogeneousInformationSystems...216 NacereddineZarour,MahmoudBoufaida,LionelSeinturier, PascalEstraillier SimulationStudyonLoadBalancedMultipleHomeAgents forMobileIPNetworks...228 AdrianVasilache,JieLi,HisaoKameda AuthorIndex...247 OLAP-Based Data Mining for Business Intelligence Applications in Telecommunications and E-commerce Qiming Chen, Umeshwar Dayal, and Meichun Hsu Hewlett-Packard Laboratories 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA {qchen,dayal,mhsu}@hpl. hp.

Although Microsoft's Access Database is extremely popular and adequate for smaller scale applications, many Access developers are discovering that their applications need a more robust, enterprise-ready database system like SQL Server. This book is designed as a guide for Access programmers looking to make this transition, but who have little or no prior experience with SQL Server.

Veteran author Russell Sinclair begins by discussing SQL Server, its architecture and application environment, and its differences from Access. He provides coverage of key topics including security, data storage, system databases, database objects, and queries.Illustrates best practices for migrating Access databases to SQL ServerCarefully explains the differences between these two systems and the changes needed for a smooth migrationAssumes no prior knowledge of SQL Server