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 ...

E-commerce Database Design - Part I This is the first installment in an explanation of Database Design for Ultradev E-commerce application developers. It's based on my database experience (and all the ...

Document databases such as MongoDB garnered rapid and strong support from application developers for multiple reasons. But clearly, one of those reasons is the support for flexible schemas. In the ...

In the same way, we should design our database using a graphical tool to produce the “blueprint” – a data model – before a single line of application code is written.