Database normalization is the cornerstone of database theory. Once a database is normalized, relationships between the data in multiple tables must be established. A hefty part of designing a ...

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 ...

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Designing an appropriate set of indexes can be one of the more troubling aspects of developing efficient relational database applications. Perhaps, the most important thing you can do to assure ...

There are three main components of GAD: a web interface, Perl modules and the database, which uses the Oracle RDBMS. The database has three layers; gene and disease data are organized into a large ...

Excel used to be the poor schmuck’s database, with spreadsheets that just sort of sat there. You could create something more sophisticated with LOOKUP functions, but they were a huge hassle to set up.

When you create a Microsoft Access table, Access will automatically create a primary key to your database table. Still, you can also specify the field you want as the primary key for your database ...