A proper database design cannot be thrown together quickly by novices. A practiced and formal approach to gathering data requirements and modeling data is mandatory. This modeling effort requires a ...

Overview Poor schema planning creates rigid systems that fail under growing data complexityWeak indexing and duplication reduce performance and increase mainten ...

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.

Here are the details to two versions of Product Tables, one for Access 2000/97 and one for SQL Server 7. Not all of these fields are necessary in one database. For example, with Size and color you can ...

The concept of database sharding has gained popularity over the past several years due to the enormous growth in transaction volume and size of business-application databases. This is particularly ...