Data Access and Transactions
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The Internet is changing our expectations about the availability of information. What we expect from the Internet and from the Web is changing as well. Once you’ve visited a site that lets you browse a product catalogue and initiate a sales transaction online, nothing is more frustrating than visiting another site that talks about products, but doesn’t let you purchase them immediately.
As online commerce and electronic publishing become increasingly common, sites that provide a high level of interactivity will replace those that simply present information. Interactivity and complexity call for information to be stored in a way that makes it easy to manipulate and modify. This is the central role of the database in today’s Web applications.
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