September 1998 | Vol. 21 No. 3 | IEEE Computer Society |
Letters |
Letter from the Chair of the TC on Data Engineering | Betty Salzberg | 1 |
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief | David Lomet | 2 |
Letter from the Special Issue Editor | Donald Kossmann | 3 |
Special Issue on Interoperability |
Data Access Interoperability in the IBM Database Family |   |
Michael Carey, Laura M. Haas, James Kleewein, and Berthold Reinwald | 4 |
The Sybase Architecture for Extensible Data Management |   |
Steve Olson, Richard Pledereder, Phil Shaw, and David Yach | 14 |
Interoperability, Distributed Applications and Distributed Databases: The Virtual Table Interface |   |
Michael Stonebraker, Paul Brown, and Martin Herbach | 21 |
Solving the Data Inter-operability Problem Using a Universal Data Access Broker |   |
Mike Higgs and Bruce Cottman | 28 |
Exporting Database Functionality - The Concert Way |   |
Lukas Relly, Heiko Schuldt, and Hans-J. Schek | 37 |
Announcements and Notices |
1999 SIGMOD/PODS Call for Papers | 52 |
1999 International Conference on Database Theory | backcover |