On yet another application review with a prospective client the issue of potentially troublesome data entity relationships came up. A number of our clients are existing QuickBase users who have made an initial attempt to design their applications and find that some assistance is neede...

When your next application calls for a database backend, stop for a moment and consider another possibility: an object database. As we hope to show in this article, an object database may not only simplify coding chores, but its capabilities may enable application solutions that you wo...

Six years ago I was asked to implement a data repository to hold network management and performance data. With monitoring systems, databases have a tendency to be large, and have a delicate balance between inserting (logging) new data and deleting old (aging) data out from the system. ...