Using Access to build a front end for SQL Server Your email has been sent What are the advantages of using Access as the front end to a SQL Server database? For starters, it's likely that your ...

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 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 ...

Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few goliaths. Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server have embedded themselves into the technical fabric ...

The relational database so dominates the thinking of information technology and business professionals that its presumed suitability for essentially all data management tasks is rarely questioned. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

File-based databases have been around since the dawn of computing. We’ve always needed to have a way of storing records of the same kind of information. In the PC world, we ended up with very popular ...