Businesses establish websites for many different reasons. Although
many firms only need simple brochure-style websites to communicate basic
corporate and product information, others have more sophisticated
requirements.
A growing number of companies have a need to publish large volumes of
data to the web, much of which changes frequently. Other firms want to deploy
e-business and e-commerce applications that allow visitors to conduct self
service transactions 24 hours each day over the Internet, normally in a secured environment.
As websites become increasingly sophisticated, the need to better manage
website content increases. There is now widespread need to manage
website content in a robust relational databases where the data can be used
to dynamically generate web pages.
This tutorial explains how relational database management systems are
integrated with websites to provide rich and dynamic web content. It
also explains how RDBMS technology is used to store transaction data from
self service Internet applications.
