Excel used to be the poor schmuck’s database, with spreadsheets that just sort of sat there. You could create something more sophisticated with LOOKUP functions, but they were a huge hassle to set up.

When databases became available for the personal computer in the mid-1980s, they quickly gained a mystique as the ultimate productivity applications. Despite their widespread use, in some ways they ...

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 ...

Test-driven software must often drop, create and populate database tables with records before it runs a suite of unit tests. For this reason, the ability to have JPA frameworks -- such as EclipseLink ...

You may have heard of Airtable. It is the software toolkit that lets your everyday, non-technical person create custom software. No programming knowledge is needed. We first mentioned it back in the ...

Database normalization is the cornerstone of database theory. Once a database is normalized, relationships between the data in multiple tables must be established. A hefty part of designing a ...

Using table indexes in databases enables you to find information within the database faster and more efficiently than not using table indexes. The two index types that are commonly used in database ...

Need help choosing the best Python ORM for your projects? Here's what you need to know about SQLAlchemy, PonyORM, Django ORM, Peewee, SQLObject, and Tortoise ORM. When you want to work with a ...

How effective are free and open source data bases? For answers, we reviewed 6:: Microsoft SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL, Oracle's MySQL, MariaDB, Apache Derby and Firebird SQL. Free or open source ...