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Database As A Tool For Hospitality Management, William G. O'Brien

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In his discussion - Database As A Tool For Hospitality Management - William O'Brien, Assistant Professor, School of Hospitality Management at Florida International University, O’Brien offers at the outset, “Database systems offer sweeping possibilities for better management of information in the hospitality industry. The author discusses what such systems are capable of accomplishing.”

The author opens with a bit of background on database system development, which also lends an impression as to the complexion of the rest of the article; uh, it’s a shade technical.

“In early 1981, Ashton-Tate introduced dBase 11. It was the first microcomputer database management processor …