If you own a version of Microsoft Office that includes Access (Office Professional 2010 is the most current version), but you’ve never used it, you’re overlooking a powerful tool for organizing and ...

In a world that is all about new apps and cloud computing, sometimes the important stuff doesn’t look new or cool. Sometimes key small business tools are just functional, they might have been around a ...

Microsoft Access is a powerful database management system (DBMS) designed to help you efficiently store, organize, and analyze data. Whether you’re managing a small business, tracking personal ...

In this paper, the authors describe a custom relational algebra query software environment that enables database instructors to teach relational algebra programming. Instead of defining query ...

Relational database management systems (RDBMS) rely on an optimizer (or relational optimizer) that transforms SQL statements into executable code. Before any SQL statement can be run by the RDBMS, the ...

If you want to know what’s what in Big Data analytics today, you’ve got to know the basics of NoSQL databases, and how appropriate NoSQL databases facilitate Big Data analytics. What are the most ...

One goal of some NoSQL databases is to remove the overhead and memory footprint of relational databases. Other goals of NoSQL databases include: closer affinity with programming languages, use of web ...