This article provides insights into how to effectively establish, expand, and mature your data governance capabilities.

When it comes to embedded systems and mobile devices software, developers face a choice between flat file and embedded database, as any future change can be very risky and expensive for their application, in a demanding market where shortcomings can result in failure.

Although it is possible to provide good service to small to medium companies as a DBA without putting in place systems and processes to manage the workload and the demands of teamwork, it isn't so in the larger enterprise. As well as standardizing and documenting, the enterprise DBA needs to centralize the management of systems.

This article shows how to abstracts database queries into separate objects for each table, adapting the Ruby on Rails to PHP.

This article explores tuning techniques for Hibernate applications, focusing on poorly documented topics, such as inheritance mapping, second level cache and enhanced sequence identifier generators.

When should an application use an embedded object database? Or, more precisely, when should a developer consider an embedded object database as an alternative to the more popular (and, probably, more familiar) relational database? This question is really two questions combined. The first is: when is it appropriate to use an ODBMS? The second is: assuming that you have determined to use an ODBMS, when is it appropriate to use an embedded one? (Many of the ODBMS systems mentioned above are available in both client/server and embedded forms.) In this article, I will deal with the individual, component questions separately. The combined answers will be the reply to the original question.

This article presents a fetching strategy that using AOP, optimizes the data retrieval process without bloating the lower level service or repository layers.

Building an NHibernate-based desktop application isn’t any harder than building a web application, and in many cases NHibernate simplifies elements of session handling and concurrency.

Learn how to set up and use the universal database connection technique known as Open Database Connectivity in conjunction with the web development language PHP. This is an introductory article for the technologies required to make an open, reliable, and standardized web application — namely, PHP, ODBC, and SQL.

Ten fundamental prescriptions and proscriptions to help you be more successful in your database development endeavors.