Despite all the hoopla about Hadoop, NoSQL databases and other big data technologies, relational database management systems continue to be the cornerstone of the IT infrastructure for processing, ...

Excel used to be the poor schmuck’s database, with spreadsheets that just sort of sat there. You could create something more sophisticated with LOOKUP functions, but they were a huge hassle to set up.

Master database schema design principles to create scalable backend systems, optimize key queries, and protect complete data ...

Object-relational databases extend the capabilities of the relational database toward representing objects. Although there are no standards yet in this arena, a clear picture emerges from the ...

Good software habits apply to databases too. Trust in these little design tips to build a useful, rot-resistant database schema. It is a universal truth that everything in software eventually rots.

This book on “Normal Forms and All That Jazz” has more good stuff in fewer pages than anything else you will find in the bookstore. This highly informative review is also a good read. You ought to ...

ERDs provide a visual starting point for database design that can also be used to help determine information system requirements throughout an organization. After a relational database is rolled out, ...

Typically, most applications consist of both batch and online workloads. This is true even today, when most of our attention has turned to online and web-based interaction. Sure, online activities are ...

Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few goliaths. Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server have embedded themselves into the technical fabric ...