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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...