When Excelon Corp. disclosed plans for its Extensible Information Server (XIS) XML database to support Oracle 9i, the company's Coco Jaenicke was often asked an important question: Why would one ...
The definition of a database. It defines the structure and content in each data element within the structure. Schemas are often designed with visual modeling tools that automatically create the SQL ...
The last company I worked at was a Rails shop, so we had activerecord migrations. It wasn't perfect (nothing is), but at least our schema was in source control and there was a reasonable way to move ...