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What is the best way of handling many-to-many relations in a RDBMS database like mySQL?
Have tried using a pivot table to keep track of the relationships, but it leads to either one of the following:
Normalization gets left behind
Columns that is empty or null
What approach have you taken in…
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I know implementing database is a huge topic, but I want to have a basic understanding of how database systems work (e.g. memory management, binary tree, transaction, sql parsing, multi-threading, partitions, etc) by investigating the source code of the database.
Since there are a few already proven…
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In previous articles discussing Oracle and VMware, the hardware and software components consisted of a Windows-based PC and the Oracle RDBMS. Steve Callan expands upon the "Oracle in a virtualized environment" concept by looking at other alternatives for the hardware and software.
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I'm working on a system to allow multiple users to collaborate on an online project. Everything is fairly straightforward, except for keeping the users in sync. Each user has their own local copy of the project database, which allows them to make changes and test things out, and then send the updates…
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I was always taught to strive for the highest Normal Form of database normalization, and we were taught Bernstein's Synthesis algorithm to achieve 3NF. This is all very well and it feels nice to normalize your database, knowing that fields can be modified while retaining consistency.
However, performance…
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