Databases Articles

Computers » Databases | By David Badurina @ Friday, 8th September 2006 @ 11:59 AM

Every business collects data. Whether it\'s something as simple as keeping track of contacts or as complicated as a full-scale inventory, data is vital to every businesses\' bottom-line. All important data is stored in some sort of database - sometimes it\'s a small Microsoft Access database or an enterprise-level Oracle database - but the database is always the nerve-center of the business. Any statistic you need or information you must find can be extracted from a... more...

Computers » Databases | By David Badurina @ Tuesday, 29th August 2006 @ 4:04 AM

For small and large database projects, Microsoft Access works wonderfully. If you have a database with hundreds of thousands of records, maybe even connecting to other databases remotely, Access will work just fine. Security isn\'t too much of a problem (no Access database is truly secure), and with a wide range of options for publishing and reporting on your data, in many cases Access is as good as it gets. That is, until you try to put it online. That\'s where converting your ... more...

Computers » Databases | By David Badurina @ Tuesday, 29th August 2006 @ 4:04 AM

There is a common \"patchwork\" philosophy in IT departments throughout the world that gives the idea that altering, changing, and fixing poorly designed databases is how you correct the problems - as opposed to starting from the ground-up and re-working a system. While Relational Database Design gets thrown out the window, a terrible side effect of this patchwork idea takes hold inside of most of these organizations. Databases - whether Microsoft Access, SQL Server, Oracle, or My... more...

Computers » Databases | By annalaura brown @ Saturday, 5th August 2006 @ 5:53 PM

Are you struggling to find what you are looking for online? Does it seem to you that no matter you do you can never find exactly what you are searching? Here are 5 tips to help you. 1. Never use only one search engine. Often the results in one search engine will be different from those in another. You can even try using a multiple search engines site such at dogpile.com or metacrawler.com. Another less used but useful search engine is clusty.com. This search engine has a different... more...

Computers » Databases | By Christine Harrell @ Sunday, 25th June 2006 @ 4:28 AM

Although tape storage is one of the older ways to backup computer data, it remains one of the most popular and reliable ways to store data. Tape backup drives have come a long way since IBM developed the technology in the 1950’s. Today’s systems are a complex network of tape drives and tape libraries that store the data of the world’s largest corporations. Aside from reliability, the other factor that makes tape drives so successful is their scalability and low cost. Tape backup drive... more...

Computers » Databases | By James Hunt @

Companies today have so much data that flows in and out of the office that they need an effective system in place to manage all this data in a way that makes sense and from which all employees benefit. Data management is becoming more and more important as the volume of data that a company deals with on a daily basis needs to be sorted, delivered, and utilized. For small companies this usually isn't an issue as they can easily manage and store their data on computer servers. However, large co... more...