WORKSHOP ON CURRENT & FUTURE TRENDS IN DATABASE TECHNOLOGY

WORKSHOP TITLE: CURRENT AND FUTURE TRENDS IN DATABASE TECHNOLOGY Friday, Dec 4, 1992

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Objective: All participants should gain an understanding of the trends in database architectures, the trends in both general and specialized database systems, and how the most popular of these trends are being incorporated into commercial relational database systems.

Who Should Attend: Analysts, database applications programmers, database designers and administrators, MIS managers, technology consultants

Instructors: Ed Robertson and Dirk Van Gucht

Session I - Introduction: How Trends Are Born 9:00-9:30

A.  Sources of Change
B.  The Change Time Line
C.  The Politics of Change

Session 2 - Trends in Information System Architecture 9:30-10:30

1. Client/Server Database Architectures
2. Distributed Database Architectures
3. Parallel Database Architectures
4. Heterogeneous Database Architectures
5. Example: A Parallel Distributed Decision Support System

Session 3 - Trends in Database Systems 10:45-12:15

1. Expert Systems and Deductive Database Systems
2. Object-Oriented Database Systems
3. Heterogeneous Database Systems
4. Extensible Database Systems
5. Example: An Expert System

Session 4 - Trends in Specialized Database Systems 1:15-2:15

1. Text Databases
2. Temporal Databases
3. Large Object Database
4. Scientific Databases
5. Example: A Biomedical Database System

Session 5 - Trends in Commercial RDBMS Products 2:30-4:00

1. Supporting Client/Server Architectures
2. Supporting Distributed Architectures
3. Supporting Constraints
4. Supporting Object Identity
5. Supporting Procedures and Triggers
6. Supporting Various Types of Indexes and File Organizations
7. Offering More and Better Tools

Session 6 - How Trends are Adopted 4:00-4:30

1. Gaining a Competitive Advantage
2. Evaluating Products
3. Developing In-house Expertise
4. Selecting a Methodology and Tools which Support It

For registration and other information please contact

Ms. Hallie Rose
812-855-2490   Received on Thu Nov 19 1992 - 20:39:33 CET