As mobile developers, our applications will need to both aesthetically display the results of our data queries, as well as give users an intuitive interface to store and insert data. In this article by Jason Wei, author of Android Database Programming, we will focus on the former – on binding data to the user interface (UI) and will look specifically at various classes that will allow us to bind our data in the form of lists (the most common and intuitive way to display rows of data).

Oracle technologists explain the cloud computing implementation as it relates to database as a service (DBaaS). Cloud computing encompasses the IT infrastructure resources, which include networks, storage, servers, applications, and services. DBaaS is a subset of the overall cloud concept, specifically focused on the last two resources, applications and services.

Creating an effective data migration testing strategy is critical to reducing risk and delivering a successful migration. This article offers thoughts and recommendations on how to create a more consistent data migration testing methodology using either a black box or a white box approach.

Part 1 of this two-part article covers the basics of achieving a consistent, concise domain model and persistence tier with modern object-relational mapping (ORM) tools. In Part 2, the authors describe base domain entities, behavior in the domain model, and more-advanced features of a generic DAO. They also share strategies for enhancing data-retrieval performance with the domain model.

Relational databases define a strict structure and provide a rigid way to maintain data for a software application. Apache's open source CouchDB offers a new method of storing data, in what is referred to as a schema-free document-oriented database model. Instead of the highly structured data storage of a relational model, CouchDB stores data in a semi-structured fashion, using a JavaScript-based view model for generating structured aggregation and report results from these semi-structured documents. CouchDB has been developed from the ground up with Web applications as the primary focus and has its sights on becoming the de-facto database for Web application development.

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.

Often, an existing database application must evolve rapidly by incremental steps. Alex describes a tried and tested system to provide an automated approach to deploying both new and existing database systems, whilst dealing with common security and configuration issues.

The objective of this paper is to present the Whitemarsh approach to the definition of function points within database-centric business information systems, the process of counting function points, and the use of two metrics derived from function point counts to accomplish business information system estimating.

The pros and cons of O/R mapping versus other data access methods.

Using the new DLR features in .NET 4 you can build a configuration-free ORM that uses the normal object-dot-property syntax without interfaces to define, classes to implement, or XML data mapping.