The integrity of database systems is increasingly dependent on maintaining high data quality while enforcing robust consistency rules. Data quality encompasses the accuracy, completeness, and ...

Everyone knows and loves the first three normal forms. We go through the process of normalization to remove redundancies in our data structures. But the redundancies we remove have nothing to do with ...

Normally a reseller agreement between two vendors wouldn’t be worthy of much note. But a recent decision by EMC to resell middleware technologies developed by Informaticaillustrates how approaches to ...

Many developers are tasked with writing unit tests as test-first design and development becomes commonplace, even on teams that aren't strictly practicing Agile methodologies. Test-driven development ...

Developers interested in gauging the security of open source components have an abundant number of choices, but they still have to choose to use the information to audit the components in their ...

I am currently working on some homework for my databases class and I am a bit confused on something. I know when dealing with functional dependencies, the rule of augmentation allows me to turn a --> ...