While this article is specifically geared to SQL Server, the concepts apply to any relational database platform. The Stack Exchange network logs a lot of web traffic – even compressed, we average well over a terabyte per month. And that is just a summarized cross-section of our overall raw log data, which we load into … Read more
Database Design is one of those tasks where you have to carefully get all the major aspects right. If you mess-up just one of these, it can all go horribly wrong. So what are these aspects that can ruin database design, and how can you get them right? Robert Sheldon explains.… Read more
A wise man once said, I know one thing: that I know nothing. If you’ve followed this series from the very beginning I am hoping that you’ve gone from knowing absolutely nothing about Oracle database programming to this point where you know the foundations, know how the parts fit together – basically, know enough to know that there’s a who… Read more
Not only is the process of normalisation valuable for increasing data quality and simplifying the process of modifying data, but it actually makes the database perform much faster. To prove the point, Peter takes a large unnormalised database and subjects it to successive stages of normalisation.… Read more
