21.2. Internet Databses

The Internet revolution of the late 90s have resulted into explosive growth of World Wide Web (WWW) technology and sharply increased direct user access to databases. Organisations converted many of their phone interfaces to databases into Web interfaces and made a variety of services and information available on-line. The transaction requirements of organisations have grown with increasing use of computers and the phenomenal growth in the Web technology. These developments have created many sites with millions of viewers and the increasing amount of data collected from these viewers has produced extremely large databases at many companies.

21.2.1. Internet Technology

As its name suggest, the Internet is not a single ...

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