Database vs. Application Virtually all of the paraphernalia of the modern SQL-Server style data model evolved in response to the many-single-users nature of the Microsoft client-server world.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Starting Your Database Design 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 ...

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