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Databases and Mobile Computing Abstract: The emergence of powerful portable computers, along with advances in wireless communication technologies, has made mobile computing a reality. Among the applications that are finding their way to the market of mobile computing -those that involve data management - hold a prominent position. In the past few years, there has been a tremendous surge of research in the area of data management in mobile computing. Due to the nature of the mobile computing environment and the restrictions of limited bandwidth and the limited amount of resources available on the mobile devices make traditional database concepts inadequate. In this paper we will look at a number of techniques that make databases feasible in mobile environments. Introduction: Thanks to the convergence of fast reliable networks and the availability of fast portable computing devices, mobile computing has become a reality. But the network available to the mobile devices is less than ideal with frequent disconnections and sometimes very low bandwidth. The implication of this is that the mobile device will be experience extended and sometimes involuntary disconnection from the other devices. In some cases the mobile device will voluntarily disconnect from the network to same battery power. Even when the mobile device is disconnected from the network it may continue to process some task. The mobile device have limited amount of memory and in some cases have no storage space. Thus a database in a mobile computing environment is a highly valuable entity that is often accessed by hundreds of mobile devices. In this paper we will discuses some of the impact mobile computing has on traditional Database concept. Mobile Computing: The general architectural model of a mobile computing environment is given in Figure 1. The model consists of both fixed and mobile devices. Mobile units (MU) are computing devices that can connect to a stationary (fixed) network via wireless links