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. I've got a pretty good handle on SQL itself (learning ...

Oracle and SQL Server both include “built-in” stored procedures, and some of them are very handy. Unfortunately, relying on them is not advisable—you have no assurance that the database ...

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

The most popular database products today, as reported by DB Engines rankings, are the relational databases Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server. Six of the top ten databases today are relational ...

If you spend any time at all reading IT trade journals and websites, you've no doubt heard about the NoSQL movement. In a nutshell, NoSQL databases (also called post-relational databases) are a ...

Relational database design theory is an enormous topic, ... Many database management systems such as SQL Server can generate these types of numeric keys for you when you are ready to populate your ...

Of course, many databases do have a limit on the length of SQL statements, but you might be surprised how far one can go. This charac­teristic of relational closure is useful when the data needs are ...