Just as it is wise to design a house before building one, it's also prudent to plan your business database before putting it on your website. Databases can appear deceptively simple and cause you to ...

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 ...

Mydbops announces its strategic focus on Database Reliability Engineering to help SaaS companies improve database ...

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 ...

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 ...

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You are creating a database from scratch for an application This application will have multiple siloed environments (PROD, TST, INT, DEV) Data from PROD will nightly be moved to the other environments ...

Database Administrator vs. Database Architect: What’s the Difference? Your email has been sent A database admin is responsible for the operation of databases, whereas a database architect manages the ...