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 business logic into your ...

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 that ...

I already know some basic SQL and I've written some very simple stored procedures and modified a few more complicated ones at work. I think I can pick up some more details for that kind of stuff by ...

EnterpriseDB, which provides products, services, support and training based on the PostgreSQL open source database project, has announced support for the newly released PostgreSQL 9.0 open source ...

Some folks think that DBAs and application developers inhabit different universes. At times this may seem to be the case, but the successful DBA must understand application development and the issues ...

From performance to programmability, the right database makes all the difference. Here are 13 key questions to guide your selection. Picking the “right” database can often be critical to the success ...

Beta 1 of Microsoft's LightSwitch shows promise as an easy-to-use development tool, but it doesn't seem to know its audience One of the Holy Grails of application development has been to allow a ...