Latest Database Articles

The Data Warehousing Institute estimates that data quality problems cost U.S. businesses more than $600 billion a year.

Learn to couple MySQL Connector/C++ and see how effectively they can be used to create a Qt C++ GUI interface for a MySQL Connector/C++ database application.

Database programming in C/C++ is quite fun, actually. Learn the basics here.

Using an embedded database in your software requires a bit of work. I show you how to do it in this article.

If you are already developing web and mobile applications, it is a common next step to start using data in and from the cloud. In this two part series, you will learn how to setup data in the cloud and use it within an application.

Relational databases are designed for multiple simultaneous users, and Microsoft SQL Server is no different. However, supporting multiple users requires some form of concurrency control, which in SQL Server's case means transaction isolation and locking. Read on to learn how SQL Server 2008 implements locking.