As I wrote in “How Databases Work with Ecommerce Applications,” you’re likely using a database for your ecommerce store even if you don’t know it. Ecommerce sites typically use databases for: ...

Editor’s Note: We continue our “Need to Know” series, where we explain complex web topics on an executive-level, “need to know” basis. For this installment, Contributing Editor Armando Roggio explains ...

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 ...

Availability and performance are key factors to success in the eCommerce field but as sites grow, the software used to support them needs to be able to keep pace. San Francisco-based database company ...

In today’s digital economy, leading companies like Best Buy Canada, Nike, Staples, and Walmart are turning to NoSQL databases for better performance, availability, flexibility, and agility at lower ...

Online transaction processing systems are purpose-built to handle large numbers of transactions by large numbers of concurrent users, while guaranteeing the integrity of the data. Online transaction ...

SQL Server is primarily built around a row-based table structure that connects related data elements in different tables to one another, avoiding the need to redundantly store data in multiple places ...

Here are the details to two versions of Product Tables, one for Access 2000/97 and one for SQL Server 7. Not all of these fields are necessary in one database. For example, with Size and color you can ...