Or it could be used as a document data base system for distributing information to employees and customers.

But potential buyers shouldn't expect Notes to replace their existing corporate data base systems.

Oracle is again profitable and remains dominant in the market for large, complex data base systems.

Most prominent on-line bookstores now use their own data base systems for ordering.

This is a full-fledged, powerful data base system that requires days of study, even with its friendly new interface.

In other data base systems, queries are usually constructed in a programming language.

Data base systems have been available for many years and were developed to make efficient use of secondary storage devices in large computer installations.

In data base systems this is reduced by integrating separate files in order to provide a wide range of information retrieval dependent on the user's requirements.

Tandem said the new system, known as nonstop Structured Query Language, is both easy to use and faster than typical relational data base systems.

One major Lotus project, disclosed at the meeting today, will focus on designing a data base system similar to those used by I.B.M. mainframes.

The key to any data base system is information retrieval, and this is precisely how HERMS helps the designer.

It has been embraced as a standard for mainframe and minicomputer data base systems, and most heavyweight PC data bases either support it or are planning to.

Instead, she says, she faces the arduous task of trying to glue together United's many data base systems in a way that is both useful to customers and secure for transactions.

Each single outcrop was separately mapped and all data relative to the mapping are stored in the digital data base system G-MAP, especially designed for the Project.

The worldwide investment in software programs for things like accounting, payroll and data base systems, written to run on I.B.M.'s operating system, has been estimated as much as $1 trillion.

Earlier this month, the Oracle Corporation said it would license Borland's Java and C++ development technologies for use with Oracle data base systems and application development tools.

The codification of the new stratigraphic framework was used in the G-MAP data base system in order to define the stratigraphic reference for all structural geological data collected.

ADABAS (an acronym for Adaptable DAta BAse System) is Software AG's primary database management system.

The research programme involves the completion of the development of a complex data base system for the computerised storage, handling and analysis of a large body of medieval and early modern merchants' account books.

In doing so they attempt to promote an efficient road service, to coordinate and strengthen the road traffic safety and to develop the transport data base system to enhance research for the development of the sector.

The Mexican unit of International Business Machines has agreed to pay Mexico City $37.5 million in cash and new computer products to resolve a dispute over a failed data base system that it sold the city.

The New York Times on the Web (http://www.nytimes.com) will use an electronic data base system that will enable the Web site to display different ads to different on-line users, based on a user's demographic profile.

Despite the promised synergies that are to result from the planned $84 billion merger the two companies announced last week, it would likely take the better part of a decade, at best, before the computer and data base systems of the combined company can be fully integrated.

A volume of two cubic microns - about 2/1000 of the volume of a typical cell - will be enough to hold a central data base system able to: Swiftly identify any of the hundred thousand or so different human proteins by examining a short amino acid sequence.

Not only must the I.R.S. collect $1.7 trillion this year, more than the gross domestic product of Britain, it must also transfer billions of taxpayer records from computer systems that date to the Eisenhower Administration to modern disk storage and data base systems that have not yet been designed.