One of the interesting design challenges facing the people supporting the IEED research effort discussed yesterday involves how much of the key applications to embed in the database design. In ...

4 The Most Common Database Design Mistakes – Too Much, Too Little, Too Late. Experts say that developers often use too many or too few indexes, both of which are bad for performance.

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 ...

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).

Flexible schemas create an additional challenge for application designers. In a fixed schema database, all of the data in the database must conform to the current version of the schema. However, in ...

Database design for platform independence Instead, you should use ANSI SQL, which is a platform-independent database language. Whenprogramming for DBMS independence, not all systems fully support ...

How to Design a Travel Website Database. 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 ...

You've carefully crafted a concurrent application taking advantage of all the latest and greatest language features. It scales magnificently and it's the jewel of the cloud. But what about the ...