DISTRIBUTED DATA BASE SYSTEMS Accessing Data More Efficiently

Abstract

As companies expand into new geographic locations, single-site data bases are almost universally recognized as being too slow in providing access to important information. Distributed data base management systems allow data to be divided among the locations that use it. Users' ability to effectively access that data depends on the vital link that ties remote data bases together— the company— s communications network

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Notes on contributors

Dave Brueggen

A systems analyst for insurance and pension computer systems at Union Central Life Insurance Co. in Cincinnati OH

Sooun Lee

An associate professor in the department of decision science and MIS at Miami University in Oxford OH