A comprehensive resource on managing multidatabase systems involving heterogeneous and autonomous databases. It presents implications of distribution, autonomy, and heterogeneity on system architectures and management techniques. It discusses logical-level issues, including representation, semantics, schema integration, and languages.
As organizations have become more sophisticated, pressure to provide information sharing across dissimilar platforms has mounted. In addition, advances in distributed computing and networking combined with the affordable high level of connectivity, are making information sharing across databases closer to being accomplished...With the advent of the internet, intranets, and affordable network connectivity, business reengineering has become a necessity for modern corporations to stay competitive in the global market.
