Overview Poor schema planning creates rigid systems that fail under growing data complexityWeak indexing and duplication reduce performance and increase mainten ...

While good database design is always necessary, the value of good design is reinforced by such endeavors as service-oriented architecture. The semantics-laden engineering of service-oriented tactics ...

Scroll through your smartphone screen and you'll no doubt see a small sea of apps for everything from watching sports to tracking the movements of the stock market. The number of apps has exploded in ...

So I've been working quite a lot with MySQL lately and having quite a lot of fun with it. It's my first forray into working with databases. <br><br>I've got a pretty good handle on SQL itself ...

An employee that is both a good DBA and willing to mess around with query building in PHP/Java/whatever are few and far between, so you often end up emailing a rendered query to one, getting back an ...

Most data analysts proclaim that intelligent keys should never be used in a database. There are good reasons for this. Unfortunately, database designers get confused when talking with users and ...

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 ...

Data modeling is the procedure of crafting a visual representation of an entire information system or portions of it in order to convey connections between data points and structures. The objective is ...