TY - BOOK AU - Burleson, Donald K. TI - Managing distributed databases: building bridges between database islands. SN - 0471086231 AV - QA 76.9.B92 PY - 1994/// CY - New York PB - John Wiley & Sons Inc N1 - Includes index; Contents: History of distributed databases -- What is database -- Overview of distributed databases -- Basics of client/ server systems -- Distributed database design -- Enterprise management of distributed databases -- Object technology and distributed databases -- Distributed object technology and distributed databases -- CORBA - a common architecture for distributed system -- Distributed database connectivity -- Database access control and connectivity -- Distributed database backup and recovery -- Distributed database security -- Performance and tuning for distributed databases -- New data retrieval methods -- Psychological issues - dealing with resistance -- New human roles in distributed database systems -- Appendix: Distributed object environments. ER -