Problems/Challenges facing Industry Data Base Users

Summary: A NatWest case study of integrating inconsistent, entrenched legacy databases into holistic customer views. Advocates deliberate data duplication to protect mission-critical systems, avoid cross-platform joins, ensure consistent access, and sustain high-performance applications. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8364
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 5.5181056e-05
Overall Rank: 7,950 | 45.46%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Kevin Fitzgerald (National Westminster Bank)

BibTeX Citation

@article{fitzgerald_vldb93,
        title = {{Problems/Challenges facing Industry Data Base Users}},
        author = {Fitzgerald, Kevin},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '93},
        pages = {707--708},
        year = {1993}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13,075	The Voice of the Customer: Innovative and Useful Research Directions	1993	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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