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.

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 ...

Developers should be aware of the hazards of using nonstandard SQL commands such as those found in Oracle, Microsoft, and MySQL systems. Instead, you should use ANSI SQL, which is a ...

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 I don’t know ...

I am looking into creating some mysql databases for use at work. I have asked to get a resource of our "professional" development team and that has been denied. So I am off to do it myself.<BR><BR>Can ...