Designing and Developing High-Performance Databases for the Web

As Web-based systems and e-commerce carry businesses into the 21st century, databases are becoming workhorses that shoulder each and every online transaction. For organizations to have effective 24/7 Web operations, they need powerhouse databases that deliver at peak performance-all the time. High Performance Web Databases: Design, Development, and Deployment arms you with every essential technique from design and modeling to advanced topics such as data conversion, performance tuning, Web access and interfacing legacy systems, and security

As Web-based systems and e-commerce carry businesses into the 21st century, databases are becoming workhorses that shoulder each and every online transaction. For organizations to have effective 24/7 Web operations, they need powerhouse databases that deliver at peak performance-all the time. High Performance Web Databases: Design, Development, and Deployment arms you with every essential technique from design and modeling to advanced topics such as data conversion, performance tuning, Web access and interfacing legacy systems, and security

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Suggests practices for building data-based applications that support web-based internet-oriented applications, using an end-to-end approach. The 57 contributions are divided into 12 sections encompassing such areas as information-gathering methods, turning information into business rules, converting a physical data model into a database design, ensuring data integrity at the atomic or referential level, performance tuning, and security. Topics include establishing enterprise data standards, an evaluation of four languages for specifying conceptual database designs, bridging legacy with XML, and database compression technologies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)