Basic Design Principles Most E-commerce applications use a similar design with 4 basic tables. There may be other ancillary tables to support things like shipping, taxes, categories for searching, etc ...

Here are the details to two versions of Product Tables, one for Access 2000/97 and one for SQL Server 7. Not all of these fields are necessary in one database. For example, with Size and color you can ...

Good software habits apply to databases too. Trust in these little design tips to build a useful, rot-resistant database schema.

While temporal data support is something that has existed in the past within other database platforms, it is a newly available feature with the RTM version of SQL Server 2016. In case you haven't ...

When working on a multidimensional design, every fact table within scope should be handled with care. In an ideal world, each low-level fact table represents the metrics related to a business event.

Access's design view helps minimize confusion when editing tables, as it displays every field and property in a single view, allowing you to see the structure of the entire table.