Fibre products of Noetherian rings and their applications

The notion of fibre product in a category is quite basic and has been studied by many authors. Also in ring theory, it is known that the fibre product is useful in the construction of examples. (See for example [3], [4] and references of [1].) Unfortunately, most such examples are non-noetherian and so are unsatisfactory from the viewpoint of commutative algebra.