Good software habits apply to databases too. Trust in these little design tips to build a useful, rot-resistant database schema.

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 ...

Today you see application logic kept rigorously outside the database mainly in science applications because the technologies the RDBMS market demands are defined by the PC community view, but ...

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).

E-commerce Database Design - Part I. This is the first installment in an explanation of Database Design for Ultradev E-commerce application developers. It's based on my database experience (and all ...

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 ...

This year's upgrade to FileMaker Pro 16 brings small but key improvements to the database app — and AppleInsider gives you a brief overview.