Comprehensive guide to emerging database technologies. Preface, Acknowledgements, Background and Introduction, Setting the Stage, Distributed Databases and Information Management, Principles of Distributed Information Management, Client and Server Databases and Middleware, Data Warehouses, Partitioning and Replication: The Next Generation, Heterogeneous Federated Databases and Multi Database Systems, Object-Oriented Databases, Principles of Object-Oriented Databases, Hybrid and Extended Relational Forms of Object Management, Object-Oriented Engines and Models, Database and Information Management Languages, SQL Futures, ODMG Languages for Object-Oriented Databases, X Base and Other Desktop Databases, Future and Information Management Models, Hypertext and Hypermedia, Supporting Functions, Repositories and Metadata Management, Transaction Processing, Database Security, The Finishing Touches, Other Database and Information Management Topics, Managerial and Business Issues, Index.