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June 6, 2000 -- Vol. 1, No. 3
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Featured:
* Ask Dan! -- How do we create Web access to a DW/DSS database?
* DSS News Stories
* What's New at DSSResources.COM
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Ask Dan!
How can we provide Web access to a DW/DSS database?
Some database software directly supports Web access, with other
DBMSs you will need to use an intermediary application program
called middleware. Examples of middleware include ColdFusion
(www.allaire.com), Active Server Pages, PHP (www.php.net), Java,
and Perl (www.perl.com). Allaire's ColdFusion uses Web server
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to interpret requests
and query a database. Perl (Practical Extraction and Retrieval
Language) can be used to write executable files that create queries
and display HTML pages. Middleware uses specific database drivers or
relies on standards such as JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) or
ODBC(Open Database Connectivity). ODBC is a set of Microsoft
application programming interfaces that define how to move information
to and from a PC database that supports the standard. Most PC
databases support ODBC. Middleware processes the data, formats it,
and returns it to the user as an HTML document. You can check a
basic article from 4/20/2000 by B. Kotek titled "Choosing a Web
Database" at http://www.builder.com/Programming/ChoosingWebDB/.
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DSS News Stories
06/06/2000 Business Objects, a provider of business intelligence
solutions, received an award for Best International Marketing from
Software Business Magazine. Check www.infowebcom.com
06/05/2000 Data Warehousing Institute conference "Best Practices in
Data Warehousing and E-Business Intelligence" in Boston, MA August
20-25, 2000. Check dw-institute.com.
06/01/2000 Call for Papers for DOLAP '2000, ACM Third International
Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP, Washington, DC, USA, November
10, 2000. Submission Deadline July 14, 2000. For more information,
visit http://www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/song/dolap.html .
06/01/2000 Call for Papers for the 3rd Maryland IS Symposium at
University of Maryland at Baltimore County (UMBC), Friday, October 20,
2000. Submissions Due July 15, 2000. For more information, see
http://www.ifsm.umbc.edu/mis/ .
05/31/2000 The Eighth Annual Dimensional Insight Users Conference will
be held in Nashville, Tennessee from September 13-17, 2000. For more
information check www.dimins.com/.
05/27/2000 Journal of Decision Systems Call for Papers - Special Issue
on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems and their impact on Decision
Making. Submission Deadline: October 1, 2000. Call can be found at
afis.ucc.ie/fadam/jds-cfp.htm
05/24/2000 IBM announced that its NUMA-Q 2000 E410 server set records for
performance in the industry standard TPC-H business intelligence benchmark.
The system, running a version of DB2, produced outstanding results at the
300GB scale factor.
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What's New? at DSSResources.COM
06/05/2000 Posted Dan's DSS Book Picks for Summer 2000.
06/05/2000 Updated and revised HTML and Programming Links Page.
06/04/2000 Updated and revised DSS Spreadsheet Links Page.
05/23/2000 Created DSS Newsletters directory and index page. Posted
Newsletters Vol. 1, No. 1 and Vol. 1, No. 2.
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