Move programming out of the source code, into the database Sure, Web services will simplify change management, but it won't eliminate many unnecessary development costs.

Each developer must be trained in the skills of database programming, including SQL skills, set-at-at-time processing, and database optimization. The responsibility for assuring that developers have ...

Practical PHP and MySQL: Building Eight Dynamic Web Applications demonstrates that it’s easy to build commercial-quality Web applications using free and open source software. The book walks you ...

Don’t use stored procedures In some programming environments, for efficiency and security reasons, stored procedures are the only way programmers can develop database applications.

The LAMP combination of Linux, Apache, MySQL and a programming technology (typically Perl, Python or PHP) is a powerful one. Once you've built one Web-based database application, however, you've built ...

A COMMIT ensures that all modifications have been physically applied to the database, thereby ensuring data integrity and recoverability. Failing to code COMMITs in a data modification program is what ...

High-performance open-source vector database Qdrant has added new enterprise-level security and management tools to its cloud offering, allowing companies to deploy and scale up artificial ...

The Paleobiology Database (PBDB; https://paleobiodb.org) consists of geographically and temporally explicit, taxonomically identified fossil occurrence data. The taxonomy utilized by the PBDB is not ...

We propose here a federated, patient-centric, application programming interface (API)–enabled health information ecosystem that leverages India’s near-universal mobile phone penetration, universal ...