Good software habits apply to databases too. Trust in these little design tips to build a useful, rot-resistant database schema. It is a universal truth that everything in software eventually rots.

Just about every developer these days ends up working with a database. Many of them end up designing databases as well. Why is it, then, that so many of those databases are designed in a slipshod ...

Despite all the hoopla about Hadoop, NoSQL databases and other big data technologies, relational database management systems continue to be the cornerstone of the IT infrastructure for processing, ...

The end goal of database design is to be able to transform a logical data model into an actual physical database. A logical data model is required before you can even begin to design a physical ...

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Most organizations spend a great deal of time thinking about database performance. DBAs tune SQL, design indexes, and monitor workloads to ensure that applications run quickly and efficiently.

Even with established, functioning databases, there are many places where good database design (or modification) can result in better, more accurate, and more effective data management. While it is ...

The final stop in this trip through the world of database design is the object-oriented (OO) schema. Mapping a UML data model to an OO schema is straightforward, though there are as always a few ...

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