Databases are used in many different settings, for different purposes. For example, libraries use databases to keep track of which books are available and which are out on loan. Schools may use ...

Airtable is an online platform for creating, using, and sharing small relational databases. It’s not ready for enterprise users yet (that’s coming), but right now, if you want help managing data for ...

In addition to needing an operating system, some embedded systems will need a structure for organizing data. In this article I discuss various ways of storing and retrieving data. Where appropriate, I ...

In Part 2, I discuss how EJB 3.0 entity beans leverage POJO and annotations to greatly simplify your data model and its persistence-to-backend relational databases. Before we get into the details of ...

Junk dimensions are often misunderstood and avoided. And they should not be. Junk dimensions offer a strategy to remain true to dimensional intentions and to better focus one's design and sometimes ...