Primer: The Virtual Database - ' Overview'

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Overview: Integrating Information

In the same way that enterprise application integration reduces the number of connections you have to create to get applications

to communicate with one another, a virtual database simplifies how you share data throughout an enterprise.

1. The virtual database has it own data model ...

2. ... which acts as a map to every source of data in the enterprise, such as databases, flat files, documents and so forth.

3. The result: Applications need to deal with only one query and one language to access all the data in the company.

SOURCE: Baseline Research

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