With all this talk of electoral reform in the air, is it too tenuous a link to ask whether we need a fresh approach to multiple platform database aggregation? Could that "single view of disparately ...

When it comes to DevOps, developers increasingly recognize databases to be code sets that require ongoing integration and deployment. They are 'another code deployment which can and should be managed, ...

Today, companies are managing their databases the same way they have been for the past 25 years: manual SQL script execution. It’s time to change that. If you are moving your databases to the cloud ...

Understanding your customer base and planning early are essential steps when designing a scalable, multi-tenant database architecture that balances cost, performance and isolation. Building and ...

When it comes to web applications, midsize to large businesses are looking to cloud databases to help them gain efficiencies and, ultimately, gain a competitive edge over their market rivals.

[Excerpted from "Protecting Databases From Web Applications," a new report published today in Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] Web applications are rich targets for attackers. Available ...

The days of one-size-fits-all, monolithic databases are behind us. As Werner Vogels, CTO and vice president of Amazon.com, said, “Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.” ...

That society's membership is managed in one (was two) Access database after a herculean effort by her to normalize all the data. 3 or 4 geographically seperate people need access to that database.

One of the interesting design challenges facing the people supporting the IEED research effort discussed yesterday involves how much of the key applications to embed in the database design. In that ...

Immortalized by “Little Bobby Drop Tables” in XKCD 327, SQL injection (SQLi) was first discovered in 1998, yet continues to plague web applications across the internet. Even the OWASP Top Ten lists ...