The Database From Hell

In which Arthur Fuller comes to the aid of a friend who is doing his best to administer The Database...

Database Design: A Point in Time Architecture

In most relational database implementations. Update and Delete commands destroy the data that was there prior to their issue. However,...

Intelligent Database Design Using Hash Keys

Your application may require an index based on a lengthy string, or even worse, a concatenation of two strings, or...

A case for canned SQL

Like a Phoenix, the dynamic SQL versus canned procedures and user functions argument has resurfaced on the SQL newsgroups. Many...

Software patents – stupid or insane?

Arthur Fuller considers software patents to be both stupid and insane, is it time for a review of patent law?…