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

Peter learns something by listening to readers: Visual Studio database projects provide a great environment for making changes to your databases. Here's a brief introduction about how they'll make ...

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 ...

I’ve been tasked with the classic, “Here’s some Word docs and Excel sheets, can this be a database?” sort of situation. I’ve dabbled in SQL enough to come up with an initial design, but ...

Bharat Kumar Dokka is a distinguished Associate Technical Architect with over 15 years of experience in database product ...

Database design for platform independence Developers should be aware of the hazards of using nonstandard SQL commands such as those found in Oracle, Microsoft, and MySQL systems.

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 appear deceptively simple and cause you ...