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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A proper database design cannot be thrown together quickly by novices. A practiced and formal approach to gathering data requirements and modeling data is mandatory. This modeling effort requires a ...

Software developers today have more options open to them. They have tools and services that can help them build new applications quickly, then launch those services to customers globally, and then ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Silicon Integration Initiative, an electronic design automation software research and development joint venture, has released Data Model 6, the newest version of ...

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 ...

Interactive design and design strategy firm ZURB today announced that it has acquired Pattern Tap, “a place where designers can find inspiration and study patterns of user interaction.” ZURB, which ...