Database design is often described as an intuitive, even artistic, process. Many researchers, however, are currently working on applying techniques from artificial intelligence to provide effective ...

The Most Common Database Design Mistakes – Plan? What Plan? Lack of planning was an oft-repeated theme. Poor planning is the fountain from which many other problems spring- The failure to adopt a ...

There are many ways to describe a database: the role it plays in a distributed architecture, the various internal components that make it work, and the various levels that define specific roles and ...

Well, as fate would have it I find myself in charge of a fairly large, and highly trafficed website for my school(GT), so I'm pretty happy about that. Problem is, the current design of the site sucks ...

As an Oracle performance-tuning expert, I frequently visit Oracle shops to improve system performance. Although Oracle offers many performance-tuning techniques, you can’t tune away a poor database ...

When databases are designed, they serve as semantic expressions of the organizations that employ them. Those expressions describe the data items of importance and articulate the business rules as the ...

Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2, the database design and Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL) tool that helps customers manage the life ...