Denormalization helps to address a fundamental fact in databases: slow read and join operations. Imagine a fruit seller has two daily lists: one of in-stock fruit and another with the market prices of ...

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...

In the methodology presented in Section 2.3.2, we used top-down approach that begins by identifying main entities and relationships. Once a database has been designed, the application of normalization ...

I've been playing around with the new Microsoft service, currently in preview and it's time to show off what it can do. Have you ever struggled with a database performance problem or ever struggled to ...

Good software habits apply to databases too. Trust in these little design tips to build a useful, rot-resistant database schema. It is a universal truth that everything in software eventually rots.