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 ...

The term "data integrity" can mean different things to different people, but the most difficult and pervasive problem facing organizations these days is the semantic integrity of the data. As ...

Regular readers of this column are aware that I am a proponent of getting rid of bad database standards. But sometimes it can be difficult to determine if a particular standard is bad, or just a lot ...