Enterprise Database in a Client/Server Environment

Current databases are developed on distributed heterogeneous hardware and systems software environments. Hardware platforms, systems software, and database management systems are multi-vendor and multi-tiered with different architectures, including mainframes, personal computers, servers and workstations. The challenge is to ensure non-redundant, consistent, reliable, integrated and usable data, processes, and information systems across the enterprise. This study presents the techniques necessary to implement an enterprise database, a network of databases across different computing platforms. It explains how to design the enterprise model, describes the principles and methodology necessary to define the database project environment, and goes on to examine the enterprise database projects that lead to success. Concluding with a summary of the entire database effort, the text will explain client/server database concepts within a framework of large-scale systems.