Just as it is wise to design a house before building one, it's also prudent to plan your business database before putting it on your website. Databases can appear deceptively simple and cause you to ...

I started out in Database Design early in my application development career. I still remember being issued with an official IBM stencil for drawing Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs). Change ...

Design reviews are an important facet of the system development lifecycle for database applications. It is during the design review that all aspects of the database and application code are reviewed ...

In the world of tech and innovation, there's a perception that new and disruptive technologies originate solely from a select group of tech elites in Silicon Valley. While this is an obvious ...

Here are the details to two versions of Product Tables, one for Access 2000/97 and one for SQL Server 7. Not all of these fields are necessary in one database. For example, with Size and color you can ...

You are creating a database from scratch for an application This application will have multiple siloed environments (PROD, TST, INT, DEV) Data from PROD will nightly be moved to the other environments ...

In the world of nonlinear editing, PC-based DVEs and CGs, and server-based play-to-air, the VPs of engineering at broadcast stations are now responsible for managing data and metadata. Databases ...

Developers should be aware of the hazards of using nonstandard SQL commands such as those found in Oracle, Microsoft, and MySQL systems. Instead, you should use ANSI SQL, which is a ...

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The first thing in building any E-commerce app is creating the underlying database to support it. As much as possible, you should try to build your application code and business logic into your ...