Product Description: Presenting mathematics as forming a natural bridge between the humanities and the sciences, this book makes calculus accessible to those in the liberal arts. Much of the necessary geometry and algebra are exposed through historical development, and a section on the development of calculus offers insights into the place of mathematics in the history of thought...read more

Product Description: A cogent technical review ensures that your design meets the goals of performance and availability. This guide explains more about a technical review than you thought existed. The technical review—complete with detailed checklists—considers general and environmental descriptions, performance, availability and capacity, programming concerns and much more...read more

Product Description: DB2: Maximizing Performance of Online Production Systems Updated to cover DB2 Release 2.4. Inmon’s classic shows you how to maximize performance and availability in OLTP applications through minimum I/Os. Database designers, system developers, programmers, managers — anyone who needs high performance and high availability in an online system — will learn how to 1) create DB2 structures: databases, table spaces, tables, indexes and views; 2) design and load DB2 tables and efficiently accomplish specified business needs, including extract data from other databases; 3) prepare, test, debug and run DB2 application programs; and 4) maximize performance and availability in online production applications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This 4-disk package comprises over 100 pretested subroutines written in Microsoft Fortran 77, compiled and included in a standard Microsoft library module. Provides descriptions of all subroutines, covering purpose, user procedure, supporting information, a listing of the subroutine source code, a complete test program, and a result of running that program...read more

Product Description: This important book covers the issues regarding DB2 in the end-user DSS milieu. Details how to open the possibilities for applying data accumulated by operational systems. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Using SQLBase®, a DBMS with preloaded tables, you will be writing SQL commands and getting results in no time. This easy-to-follow guide explains how to retrieve and update data, define tables, control data within tables, produce reports and much more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Shows how to transform word problems into algebra equations, and discusses rate, coin, mixture, investment, work, attendence, age, and lever problems. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book/video package describes what you need to know in order to obtain a high-performance data architecture that offers intense availability, rapid application development, easy maintenance, accurate data and creditable decision-support processing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: About This Book Here W.H. Inmon defines the systems development guidelines and principles that ought to govern the client/server environment—what they are, how they are implemented, and what happens if they are ignored—and develops an architecture that applies across all client/server environments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A newly revised edition of the guide to making the most of this increasingly important information systems technology. Using real-life examples, the book demonstrates the potentials and limits of client/server technology, examines how this technology can be used to increase productivity, describes the design of client/server systems using a variety of software systems and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Describes techniques essential to implement an enterprise database—a network of databases across various computing platforms. Explains how to define the enterprise data model, the principles and methodology necessary to characterize the database project environment and enterprise database projects that lead to success...read more

Product Description: Explains some of the more important developments happening in this field and does so in a manner that even the newest practitioner can understand. Ties together all the diverse elements of client/server (C/S) computing. Discusses which applications can be downsized and how to go about it...read more

Product Description: Explains some of the more important developments happening in this field and does so in a manner that even the newest practitioner can understand. Ties together all the diverse elements of client/server (C/S) computing. Discusses which applications can be downsized and how to go about it...read more

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Product Description: Everything you need to select the software, develop the applications, and create the client/server platform your enterprise needs Here is the help you've been waiting for to make the most of the enormous potential of client/server technology and cope with the complex issues that surround it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Contains essential information based on the author's personal development experience using Sybase SQL Server on diverse client/server development projects for mission-critical application systems. Focuses on providing readers with practical examples of SQL Server features that can be used immediately in an application development environment...read more

Product Description: A nuts-and-bolts guide to exploiting the full potential of today's client/server technology . . . Everybody agrees that the days of the mainframe are fast coming to a close and that the future of large-scale information systems is in client/server technology...read more

Product Description: Making the transition from mainframe to distributed computing can be a massive (and massively expensive) undertaking. That's why, before you commit to making the move to a client/server or open computing system, it's important that you have all the facts you need to make the right strategic choices for your organization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The "father of data warehousing" incorporates the latest technologies into his blueprint for integrated decision support systems Today's corporate IT and data warehouse managers are required to make a small army of technologies work together to ensure fast and accurate information for business managers...read more

Product Description: Concurrency in Dependable Computing focuses on concurrency related issues in the area of dependable computing. Failures of system components, be hardware units or software modules, can be viewed as undesirable events occurring concurrently with a set of normal system events...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The data warehousing bible updated for the new millennium Updated and expanded to reflect the many technological advances occurring since the previous edition, this latest edition of the data warehousing "bible" provides a comprehensive introduction to building data marts, operational data stores, the Corporate Information Factory, exploration warehouses, and Web-enabled warehouses. Written by the father of the data warehouse concept, the book also reviews the unique requirements for supporting e-business and explores various ways in which the traditional data warehouse can be integrated with new technologies to provide enhanced customer service, sales, and support-both online and offline-including near-line data storage techniques.