July 1997 / Features

Attention, Data-Mart Shoppers Data Mart or Data Warehouse? Representative Vendors with Data-Mart Packages Data Marts Data-Marts Road Map Additional Resources	For access to your most valuable data, you can build data marts from either the bottom up or the top down. - by Karen Watterson
A Virtual Private Affair Linking Clients to Networks Where the Encryption Is Security Problems Security Solutions	Virtual private networks offer some serious savings -- if you know the secret. - by Mike Hurwicz
Searching for Deep Blue Deep Blue's Brute Force Comparing High-End CPUs The Blue Team Deep in Thought	Was world chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated by a computer, or by a team of engineers and grand masters who beat the game clock? - by Tom R. Halfhill
Double Zero The Process Effects of Pivots on Two-Digit Years Finding the Needles in the Haystack Problems with Year 2000 Projects by Company Size	Year 2000: no COBOL, no mainframe, no problem, right? Wrong. Place your bet correctly on the year 2000 roulette wheel. - by Joe Celko and Jackie Celko

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