A foreign key is a relationship between two entities. Generally speaking, inter-entity relationships are one-to-many, e.g., an ORDER has many ORDER LINEs, and so forth. Even a case that may start out ...

Occasionally one sees an entity-relationship diagram (ERD) having an unusual characteristic. The unusual element is an entity (or more than one) that seems to have a relationship with every other ...

I'm working on a web app, and it part of it, there is a very simple database-driven file/document manager. As a file manager, there is the possibility of sub-folders. So in the DB, I have the ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Hybrid cloud implementations are ...

Databases are used in many different settings, for different purposes. For example, libraries use databases to keep track of which books are available and which are out on loan. Schools may use ...