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Fatalflaws Insql by E.F DRTRMRTIC ® AUGUST 15, 1988 A CAHNERS PUBLICATION SPECIAL REPORT: DBMS FatalFlaws InSQL By E.F. (odd Also In This Issue: • Why Management Must Confront the VDT Issue • Contract Programming Is Hotter Than Ever • IEEE Warns on Japanese Supercomputer Threat T utgrow. hen you've got to available in the SAS turn those numbers System. You choose into a presentation, the products you turn to the SAS® System. The need, and enjoy the SAS System includes easy-to­ same easy-to-use lan­ use procedures for charts, guage and syntax in plots, maps, and three-dimen­ each. Whether you sional displays. 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Willie Schatz SQL is the de facto standard explores the reasons why. in DBMSS today. Here, "the 21 Software father of relational technol­ Gary McWilliams investi­ ogy" examines two of the gates the jumble of graphical three flaws he sees in SQL. user interfaces and operat­ 51 All TPls Are Not ing systems vying for devel­ Created Equal opers' favor. Behind the BY STEVEN CANIANO obvious cosmetic differences Different evaluations of lie some substantial issues. OLTP DBMS products with TPI 24 Microcomputers benchmarks don't always The death of Boris produce equivalent results. Naumov, the man oversee­ Herewith, a guide to mak­ ing computerization in So­ ing useful comparisons. viet society, may hinder any With: East-West high-tech joint 53 Clearing the Benchmark ventures. David Hebditch Air probes what's ahead. New TPI guidelines. With: 57 The New Era of DBMS 24 The Structure of the Soviet Integration IS Industry BY DAVID R. BROUSELL 30 Networks Three of every four IS Brad Schultz illuminates a managers surveyed in an ex­ little-known research project clusive DATAMATION poll say into so-called MEMNETS. If they plan to integrate main­ successful, the need for frame DBMSS with those on products to implement con­ pcs and workstations. formance to network proto­ 63 The Traveling Program­ cols may be over. mer's Popular Show 39 Behind the News BY MARY JO FOLEY The recent Suffolk County, Packaged software and sys­ N.Y., mandate for VDT work­ tems integrators were ex­ er "protection" has rekin­ pected to crimp third-party dled the debate over VDT programmers' style, but it safety. Willie Schatz exam­ ain't necessarily so. With: ines how the focus has shift­ 65 A partial list of contract ed to ergonomics and what programmers. the work environment is like at several firms. 74 The DATAMATION/Price With: Vfaterhouse Survey 4 1 Using Ergonomics To Im­ Over 60% of IS execs sur­ prove the Bottom Line veyed expect to increase MIPS capacity. 2 DATAMATION D AUGUST 15, 1988 Editorial o o NEW PRODUCTS Time To Go On 68 Hardware New Teleos Communications AUGUST 15, 1988 The Offensive releases for ISDN switching be­ VOLUME 34 It's neither the biggest nor the richest company in its tween basic rate interface and NUMBER 16 field, yet that hasn't prevented Con Edison froD;1 primary rate interface circuits. THIS ISSUE, 184,089 assuming a leadership position in managing information In Trends: page printers fuel COPIES age workers. Specifically, the 23rd-Iargest U.S. utility nonimpact printer sales. has gone on the offensive in protecting the health of 70 Software employees who use video display terminals, the subject Walker Interactive Systems of Willie Schatz's Behind the News report (p. 39). makes its mainframe financial Not satisfied with steps it has already taken, such software available under IBM's as eye exams and work breaks, Con Ed plans to embark DB2 RDBMS for the MVS operat­ ing system. In Trends: a way soon on an ergonomic training program to teach for CICS users to use the COBOL employees how to avoid screen glare, among other sort verb on-line. things. Unfortunately, several other user organizations 1988 JESSE H. NEAL have taken a defensive posture on vDTs-investing IDEPARTMENTS AWARD sums in lawyers and lobbyists to thwart legislative 4 Letters moves to govern VDT use in the workplace. We find little fault with organizations that oppose 73 Calendar VDT -use laws on Constitutional grounds-they have OOPSLA '88, a conference on every right to oppose government intrusion into their object-oriented programming, is coming up in San Diego. markets. But we can't help wondering whether the money wouldn't be better spent on research and 76 Career Opportunities retrofits. Although more states have rejected VDT -use 88 Advertisers' Index legislation than have approved it-the score is 24 states to nine at this point, according to one association-the Cover Paper Sculpture by Ajin issue is unlikely to go away.
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