Datacasting: How to Stream Databases over the Internet

The ultra-timely introduction to the biggest technology marriage of the year: the merging of Web technology and databases. Consultants and small businesses are desperate to port their valuable information onto their Web without having to reinvent the Wheel, and vendors are frantically releasing products to assist them. Keyes provides an expert map to this new territory. She explains the key offerings from Informix, Oracle, Sybase, IBM, Microsoft, and shareware sources - then shows how they can transform static client/server databases into Web-ready, interactive, dynamic interactions. Through nuts-and-bolts examples and tutorials, readers will learn all the new ways to retrofit database-driven production data into HTML-formatted screens.