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The article offers five reasons to use an oracle database for business needs. Topics include increase the database size and throughput and complete an online split with linear scalability; reads and replays in-flight database requests and is 100 percent transparent to users and applications; and Oracle Database will always be the right size for the business needs due to these capabilities.

The article outlines the significance of the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) in Washington D.C. The organization provides public access to education research and information through a database of more than 1.2 million bibliographic records from 1966 to the present as well as links to publishers' Web sites and full-text documents. In 1966, the ERIC started to collect, catalog and provide centralized access to federally funded research and related education documents. Its mission is to provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information for educators, researchers and the general public.

The article offers information on Scientific and Technical Information Network (STN) script commands. STN script commands have been available for many years, starting with the first version of STN Express, which used script language for login scripts that accessed STN and other online database systems. Over the years, STN International has introduced other applications of script language, most notably to generate Derwent World Patents Index (WPI) strategies, as well as scripted command files from lists of accession, patent, or CAS Registry number identifiers or SciFinder Answer Keys.

The article offers a look at a wide variety of commercial databases that provide company research. They include Hoover's Inc., Dialog Pro CI, Factiva, ProQuest's ABI/INFORM Complete, and 10K Wizard.

Reviews three online databases. Aardvark Web portal from i-Group Ltd.; JCR on the Web from ISI Co.; EuroFactor database from VICER Co.

This article details the design, structure and content of a Web-based database created by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency containing declassified documents on the Vietnam War. The main reason for the creation of the database is the Declassified Documents Catalog's lack of in-depth indexing. Total searches such as searches for personal names, place-names, names of operations/battles, and titles of U.S. and/or Vietnamese government projects/programs, which would be very useful for Vietnam War scholars/researchers, are impossible. As of July 2004, the database contains 1,080 records, 34 percent of which provide a link to the full-text documents available online at the Virtual Vietnam Archive. The documents analyzed could go from one to a few hundred pages. Microsoft SQL Server 2000 was used as the database server. In addition to being an outstanding relational database server, the rich full-text search capabilities it offers made it an excellent choice for this project. The database consists of a single table, although some normalization could have done, especially with respect to the indexing terms. All columns in the table, with the exception of Document ID, are variable length character data.

This article details several dictionary services and spelling aids for Web searching. A dictionary technology was developed to be used in a variety of applications, such as orthographic verification, writing aid, natural-language processing and information storage and retrieval. The design of the technology allows building complex applications using the components developed in the earlier phases of the work in a modular fashion without extensive rewriting of computer code. Since many of the potential applications envisioned for this work have online or Web-based interfaces, the dictionaries and other computer components must have fast response and must be adaptable to open-ended database vocabularies, including chemical nomenclature. ChemSpell is an adaptation of standard spelling aid technology to large, unbounded chemical nomenclature databases. Chemical names differ substantially from normal English vocabulary, can exceed 700 characters in length, and may include embedded spaces and punctuation. Unlike traditional dictionaries that have several hundred thousand words, chemical databases may have several million chemical names. One final aspect is the ease with which the spelling aid mechanisms can be maintained. Basically, when a database is updated, keys must be generated for each chemical name and the corresponding spelling aid indexes need to be updated with the new entries. This is easily supported by databases such as Oracle, which makes it possible for ChemSpell to provide the newest entries in the database as spelling aid candidates when appropriate.

This article discusses the process of building an OpenUniform Resource Locator (OpenURL) resolver to improve library technology. An OpenURL resolver is a piece of software or script that receives attached data and serves up a Web page that tells the user where to get the book or article represented by it. The application of the Web-based, searchable database of electronic and print journal holdings, is the first step toward creating a local OpenURL resolver. The journal title database has three tables: (1) Bibliographic: this contains a row for each journal with the International Standard Serial Number and publication information, (2) Holdings: this contains a row for every place a journal is located within the collection, with a URL and a coverage field that contains volume/issues and/or years held and (3) Titles: this contains a row for every variant of title used to refer to a journal.

Features the online database reviews.com of the Association for Computing Machinery. Information provided by the database; Techniques of customizing and personalizing the database; Improvement needed by the database.

Deals with the development of online mega-periodical databases. Similarities among mega-databases; Characteristics of the database. INSET: BIG can be beautiful.

Reviews the content aggregator database SkyMinder from CRIBIS.

Focuses on the use of the Internet for libraries to index their archives collections. Index of obituary records made available to the public by the Vigo County Public Library in Terre Haute, Indiana; Use of a Microsoft Access 97 database which was later converted to Hypertext Markup Language; Decision to add a search feature to the database; Other archive projects attempted in Vigo County, such as the 1820 Census and Township Histories.

Evaluates free accessible databases in the World Wide Web. Details on services offered; Comparison with traditional information retrieval systems; Advantages.

Details the process of how Quinnipiac College Library in Hamden, Connecticut switched from its CD-ROM network of its databases to Web-based network. Impetus for the decision; Advantages of the online database; Challenges faced; Conclusions.

Details the information gathering process of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Definition of a patent; Process of applying for a patent; What prompted the USPTO to use online database.

Evaluates several online databases. Features of the database 'United Connection,' launched by the United Airlines Inc.; Advantages of using database of World Travel Center; Problems confronted by users while using compact discs on famous American women, offered by Pilgrim New Media.

Presents information on several Intranet databases that can help deliver useful and up-to-date content to librarians for small and large projects. How Intranet databases work; List of free tools and shareware; Description of the Electronic Journals resource; Selection of a database development tool.

The article presents an update on several electronic publications, digital information resources, Web sites and databases as of March 2004. Yahoo! Inc. announced the launch of extensive election-related offerings to equip consumers, candidates, and political organizations for the 2004 campaign season. Nature Publishing Group has announced that Nature Japan, its Asian subsidiary, will produce a Chinese edition of Nature to be distributed exclusively in mainland China. MicroPatent LLC announced the release of its MPI-INPADOC Plus database. This enterprise-wide search, monitoring, and review tool within MicroPatent's Patent Web has nearly 50 million patent records. Dialog Corp. announced that it has enhanced the BIOSIS Previews database which is available through its Dialog and Dialog DataStar services. The company also announced that it is offering Dialog Choice, a new fixed-free enterprise pricing plan. Serials Solutions Inc. announced that it has released E-Journal Portal as part of its new E-Journal Access & Management Suite. E-Journal Portal delivers a low-maintenance e-journal management solution and includes daily data updates. SLA announced that it has launched the fourth generation of its Web site.

Considers some of the pressures and choices to be made by customers of bibliographic and other traditional databases, as of October 2003. Choices for cancellation of print collections; Considerations in searching big databases; Recommended databases; Comparison of the use of bibliographic databases within larger companies.

Discusses the creation of a compiled chemical bibliographic database. Secondary chemical publications that contain some records that Chemical Abstracts does not have; Reason for the need for bibliographic databases; Importance of the inclusion of chemical reactions in chemical information.

Compares two physics databases with the Los Alamos e-Print Archive. INSPEC, which stands for Information Services in Physics, Electronics and Computing, database; SPIN Web database.

Focuses on PubList and jake, tools for searching information about periodicals. Clarification about the regular search function; Difficulties in database-building and maintenance; Problem with jake.

Presents information on the databases included in the fun reference source, All Media Guide. All Music Guide database; All Movie Guide database; All Game Guide database; All Classical Guide database.

Focuses on the BioMedNet database for biomedical research, owned by Elsevier Science. Main areas of scientific content; What makes BioMed stand out from other biotechnology sites; Description of the database.

Discusses how Jurisline.com, LLC is shifting the foundation of the online legal marketplace with its Web-based resource for legal research. What the service provides; Where the data comes from; Background of the company; The lawsuits between Jurisline.com and Reed Elsevier's Matthew Bender.

Evaluates the Web-based database application LinkBank from Smith Renaud Inc. of New York City, New York. Kind of service does the application provides; Features of LinkBank; Server used by the database application.

Evaluates the engineering Internet database of CRC Press LLC called Chapman & Hall ENGnetBASE. What the database provides; Subject areas; Potential end-users; How to access the database.

The article discusses ebooks and its use for research and educational purposes. It is stated that ebooks are a subset of e-resources, which include databases, web sites, and articles. The author presents a categorization of books including fiction and nonfiction, reference works, and textbooks, and how it affects their educational value when converted electronically.

The article offers a report relating to the importance of database load balancing in delivering performance on low-cost servers. Database load balancing is used to improve the reliability and performance of server farms for Web and application servers. It also ensures scalable performance, continuous availability, and data consistency for transactional databases. It states that such lower-cost commoditized systems are more efficient, utilize resources more effectively, and squeeze all the performance and capacity possible from the infrastructure.

The article reports on the databases used by Google Inc. The Internet service provider makes use of MySQL for its online, software-as-service model and advertising models. Google employs Berkeley database from Sleepycat Software Inc. to manage user ID settings for Google services. The application of edge and embedded databases include telecommunications to powering data storage devices. Evans Data survey has identified the single reason for working with embedded databases is because of ease of development and use.

This article focuses on merger and acquisition (M&A) databases in the U.S. On the surface, there are multitudinous sources of information on M&A activities. Government agencies that regulate the securities industry are a prime source for publicly traded companies. In the U.S., the Securities and Exchange Commission requires regulatory filings if a public company is involved. Privately held companies are exempt from filing, making that data much harder to come by. Mentions of M&A deals in the general press derive data from press releases issued by the companies involved and by regularly perusing the relevant SEC filings. One reason why the information in M&A databases differs is the source (or sources) being used. Some rely solely on regulatory filings, others on news sources.

This article focuses about the growth of open source databases (OSDs) and its adoption in the IT world by business enterprises in the U.S. OSDs are subject to the same concerns as their commercial counterparts in terms of perceived levels of scalability and security, and technical support. Getting around from budget constraints and concerns from the total cost of ownership are the leading reasons why OSDs are deployed. OSDs are applied in Web serving, departmental or single-function databases rather than in mission-critical environments. Organizations have made efforts to test OSDs for viability with projects with less exposure. Results of a survey have suggested that companies won't deploy OSDs out of concern for technical analysis of specific costs associated with data retention and compliance offerings.

This article reports that the proliferation of relatively inexpensive wireless local area network (LAN) or WiFi hot-spot networks has opened up the floodgates of mobile computing the same way the Internet opened up network-enabled computing in the U.S. A survey from Evans Data Corp. further confirms a noticeable rise in companies planning to provide applications over wireless LAN. Experts, however, claim that applications and database environments still need to be configured and architected to pass seamlessly between offline and online settings. It is the aim of this article to evaluate the new challenges faced by database developers and administrators in building connectivity solutions that will enable local computing in non-accessible areas.

The article provides an update on new and enhanced databases as of April 2004. ProQuest Information and Learning announced that it will add 103 Springer-Verlag journal titles to the ABI/INFORM family of online business periodical databases, ProQuest Research Library, ProQuest Science, Technology and Medical databases. Dialog announced that it has added comprehensive data on adverse drug events to the collection of pharmaceutical industry news and research available through its Dialog-branded online services. The new adverse drug reactions content, known as DIOGENES: Adverse Drug Events Database, is produced and supplied to Dialog by FOI Services Inc. and is offered through a single searchable database format. Thomson ISI announced that, throughout 2004, it will add up to 1,100 new researchers to ISIHighlyCited.com, its free online gateway to scientific authors. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts announced the launch of the new online CSA Technology Research Database. The multidisciplinary resource offers more than 5.5 million records covering serial and non-serial literature, biweekly updates, and backfiles to 1962. Marcel Dekker Inc. released the new Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science, available in print form and as an online database. Thomson Delphion has extended its partnership with CHI Research Inc. to add European corporate hierarchy data to its existing U.S. data for expanded patent search capabilities.

Reports on the announcement by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) of the release of two bibliographic databases on engineering. Access to the databases; Information on engineering; Enhancement of an existing database belonging to CSA.

Reports on the announcement by Chemical Abstracts Service of an Enhanced Reference Linking service from ChemPort. Publishers for which the service is available; Access to primary and secondary chemistry sources using the service.

Announces that the ISI Reaction Citation Index is now included on the Web site ChemWeb.com. Features of the index, which combines reaction data from Current Chemical Reactions with author abstracts from the Science Citation Index; Database search structures.

Reports that EBSCO Publishing has released the Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, a comprehensive database with full text to more than 400 journals. Design of the product for colleges and biomedical libraries; Link from search results in citation-only databases to full text in other EBSCO databases; Release of the Sociological Collection.

Presents advice for librarians regarding the availability of free or partially-free substitutes for fee-based information services and databases. Details of such alternatives, including the United States Library of Congress Machine Readable Catalog (MARC) database; Features of the ERIC and MEDLINE online databases; Inexpensive resources provided by abstracting and indexing services, such as Northern Light, Contentville, and others.

Reviews the database Population Demographics from Donnelley Corp.

The article reports on a lawsuit filed by Dialog Information Services against the American Chemical Society (CAS) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on June 7, 1990. According to Dialog, restrictions on the accessibility of CAS database violate the anti-trust law of the U.S. and prohibit fair competition between CAS and its fellow online suppliers. The company demands a court injunction for the access of all computer-readable databases of CAS to Dialog and actual and punitive damages of $150 million.

Evaluates the online service DataTimes. Details of the user guide of the database for logon protocols; Total number of newspapers representing U.S. states, contained by the database; Expectations on the search software of DataTimes; Primary application and users of the database.

This article provides information on Microsearch, a database of microcomputer product information developed by Information Inc. Alain Carr, president of the company, conceived Microsearch as an electronic buyers' guide that would have evaluative information from magazines as well as product descriptions from manufacturers. After two years of work and an investment of 1.5 million dollars, Microsearch was released in 1984. It is now a major online database for microcomputer product information. Microsearch's largest section consists of more than 19,000 abstracts of reviews from nearly 200 magazines. A second component of Microsearch contains approximately 12,000 abstracts of product manufacturers' brochures and specification sheets.

Reviews the online database Electronic Yellow Pages produced by Market Data Retrieval Co.

This article profiles EIC/Intelligence, a U.S. company offering electronic information services founded by James G. Kollegger. The company creates value-added databases on the environment, energy, biotechnology, telecommunications and many other topics. According to Kollegger, his company's annual revenues for 1984 were roughly $5 million. Environline, Energyline and Telegenline are among EIC's online databases geared for the intermediary. EIC's formula for success is based on spotting an emerging trend.

The article presents the Informer, an integrated software produced by F. W. Davidson & Company and Entrinsik. The integration of their respective software packages offers customers a Web-based reporting tool that allows end-users to intuitively and securely access data directly from IBM U2 databases. It also allows the viewing of data in HTML, Excel or PDF formats. The integration mentions the use of the VAR Toolkit and its usefulness, intended to make VARs easier to customize Informer both visually and programmatically.

The article focuses on Toshiba TEC Europe using the Oracle E-Business Suite. Since 1998, the company has relied on Oracle E-Business Suite to handle the important business information that backs its manufacturing and supply chain operations. Because of expanded implementation and increased activity, the production database developed to over 500 gigabytes, thus resulting to slippage in online response times. According to Toshiba's Oracle E-Business Suite Application Manager, Michael Poupon, archiving recommends the best approach to address these service level and availability matters. In May 2005, he attended one of Princeton Softech's enterprise data management presentations and found out about Optim. It offers the capabilities Toshiba needs to manage Toshiba's data growth problem.

The article reports that Ashwood Computer has announced the release of FastBac, a customized backup configuration solution, for IBM UniData and UniVerse database users. Ashwood Computer is a full service VAR and systems integrator for companies that use multivalue database technology. FastBac provides U2 sites with a low-overhead method of acquiring fast and accurate data backups and restores. Ashwood Computer president Rod Owens states that other backup solutions back up the U2 applications while the U2 database is operating.

The article reports that software solution provider NorthGate Information Solutions has announced the release of the latest version of its multivalue/enhanced-relational database, Reality V12.0. The product features full integration with Web services, a database isolation capability, a high-performance XML parser and MV compatibility enhancements. It also includes a DataBasic profiler for application tuning and the Database Stack Trace function. Mark Fuller, support manager for Reality, states that the product's new openness helps reduce cost of ownership.

The article reports on BlueFinity International's decision to implement Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) feature into mv.NET. AJAX is a web development technique that gives developers a framework in enhancing the usability and interactivity of web application and increase of web page speed. According to BlueFinity lead developer David Cooper, mv.NET always aimed to provide more than straight database connectivity for multivalue developers and they immediately recognized the potential of AJAX-based techniques in improving web applications.