When databases became available for the personal computer in the mid-1980s, they quickly gained a mystique as the ultimate productivity applications. Despite their widespread use, in some ways they ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Once you’ve installed SQLite, you’ll probably want to learn how to maneuver around the ...

Test-driven software must often drop, create and populate database tables with records before it runs a suite of unit tests. For this reason, the ability to have JPA frameworks -- such as EclipseLink ...

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.

Microsoft Access is a powerful database management system (DBMS) designed to help you efficiently store, organize, and analyze data. Whether you’re managing a small business, tracking personal ...

Code First frees you up from the chore of creating databases for your project. Here's a primer on how to do it. Entity Framework has been the latest buzzword in the Microsoft Development circle since ...

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 ...

I recently published a tutorial describing the different available methods to store data locally in an Android app. However, due to article length constraints, I could not adequately cover creating ...

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 ...