SQL stands for ‘Structured Query Language’. This is basically a declarative language used for storing and retrieving data in a database. If you’ve heard of SQL, it’s probably in the ...

Rather than verifying data you are inserting is valid, conflict-free, and completely correct in the application before you perform data insertion, you let the database execute the validation.

Database vs. Application Virtually all of the paraphernalia of the modern SQL-Server style data model evolved in response to the many-single-users nature of the Microsoft client-server world.

From performance to programmability, the right database makes all the difference. Here are 13 key questions to guide your selection.

Creating and using an SQLite database for data persistence in Android apps. Covers the basics, as well as using foreign keys. Full source included.

On Thursday, Google added a good old fashioned SQL database to Google App Engine, a means of building and hosting applications atop Google's online infrastructure. The Google infrastructure is ...

Google has created a relational database for its cloud-hosted App Engine application development and hosting platform, a much-requested addition, the company ...

One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record ...

The maker of a phone app that is advertised as providing a stealthy means for monitoring all activities on an Android device ...

Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...