Managing Distributed Databases: Building Bridges between Database Islands

Everything you need to create, adapt, fine-tune, and manage first-rate distributed databases

End-users demand simultaneous access to numerous databases— all day, every day, and in every application.

Today's IT managers are expected to make a diverse hodgepodge of databases, hardware, and applications behave as if it were a single, integrated system— to build bridges between islands of information. This handbook provides solutions to every conceivable problem associated with the management of distributed database systems, including those in client/server environments. Distributed database expert Donald K. Burleson covers both the technical and human factors that managers must consider to successfully create and maintain a distributed database environment, including:

• Client/server issues
• Object technology
• Distributed system design
• Database access control and connectivity
• Performance and tuning
• Security
• Backup and recovery
• Trends for distributed databases