A new database-oriented tool in Visual Studio Team System will let programmers more easily make, test changes to database designs.

Data visualization is often described as part art and part science, and it's true: Visual design and information representation are separate yet highly interrelated concepts that, together, create ...

Rebecca M. Riordan's book, Seeing Data: Designing User Interfaces for Database Systems Using .NET, helps you learn how to design a database UI in order to display information effectively.

LocalDB is making life easier for database developers working in the Visual Studio 11 IDE.

Good database design decreases the probability of failure, lessens maintenance effort and speeds up the time taken to complete a task. How to Select a Data Modeling Tool? A good data modeling software ...

Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals ("Data Dude") was introduced in 2006, bringing a new database project type, refactoring, unit tests and more SQL Server 2008 R2 gave us data-tier ...

Quest Software, Inc., a Visual Studio Industry Partner and maker of Toad for Oracle, has announced the launch of Toad Extension for Visual Studio. Toad Extension for Visual Studio is a database schema ...

Database design for platform independence Developers should be aware of the hazards of using nonstandard SQL commands such as those found in Oracle, Microsoft, and MySQL systems.