What are some of the secondary benefits to implementing QD?
• Since personal computers running QD can access their databases without being connected to the network, the remote systems can operate even if the main database server goes down. This provides increased availability and even limited disaster tolerance for the database and its related applications. • Since the database is portable, you can bring the entire database to a customer meeting, even when no network access is available. This can give a resourceful salesperson or analyst the means to vastly improve data access. And since QD can compress and share the entire database, or even multiple databases, users have access to more data than ever before. • Once the simple initial set up is completed, minimal database administration is required to manage the read-only database copies on desktops and laptops. • Many large database implementations consist of a master database server, which feeds data to a data warehouse, which in turn makes data available to a series of smaller data marts. In
