In the development business, there’s no excuse for a bad design. Unfortunately, you probably know developers who skip through or completely ignore the design process because they don’t understand the ...

Big data is less predictable than traditional data, and therefore requires special consideration when building models. Here are some things to keep in mind. Image: iStock/z_wei Data modeling is a ...

For example, the default option is to create a database initializer class that inherits from CreateDatabaseIfNotExists. With this option the first line of code that accesses the database triggers the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The “exciting” things programmers like is making things happen — deep down, every programmer out there got their start because ...

Data can feel overwhelming, especially when it’s scattered across spreadsheets, databases, and countless other sources. If you’ve ever stared at rows of numbers, wondering how to make sense of it all, ...

The end goal of database design is to be able to transform a logical data model into an actual physical database. A logical data model is required before you can even begin to design a physical ...

When we build database-backed enterprise applications, we generally want to isolate our entity models, the DbContext, and the logic for database initialization and migration to maintain a clean ...

For example, the default option is to create a database initializer class that inherits from CreateDatabaseIfNotExists. With this option the first line of code that accesses the database triggers the ...

Similarly to how XML became the well-known standard adapted by many software vendors for data exchange, Resource Description Framework (RDF) is going in the same direction for describing and ...