Design reviews are an important facet of the system development lifecycle for database applications. It is during the design review that all aspects of the database and application code are reviewed ...

I started out in Database Design early in my application development career. I still remember being issued with an official IBM stencil for drawing Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs). Change ...

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 ...

Software developers today have more options open to them. They have tools and services that can help them build new applications quickly, then launch those services to customers globally, and then ...

Data encryption performs two purposes: it protects data against internal prying eyes, and it protects data against external threats (hacking, theft of backup tapes, etc.) Encryption in the database ...

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 ...