An extremely flexible and easy-to-use library that retrieves data in XML format, supports simple parameterized queries, stored procedures, and transactions. It can also be used as a web service.

In this article, you’ll learn how to extract a list of stored procedures from a database, plus information about the parameters associated with the stored procedure. Finally, you’ll see how to take this information and use it to call a stored procedure on the fly.

Along with database design, Indexes are the backbone of optimal database performance. It requires specialist knowledge to ensure that you have the right indexes for the right job and this article will provide you with enough knowledge to make the right choices - and to know when to use an index and when not.

Basically, the Rules of Normalization are enforced by eliminating redundancy and inconsistent dependency in your table designs...

Steve gives us a great explanation of what a database is, the relational database model, metadata and indexes, the database management system and structured query language.

Julie has written this article to assist a dba to evaluate their database so that it matches the organisation's needs...The database which you think is best matched with your organization is your..

In this article I will introduce you to the JDBC API, showing you how to connect to and work with a database.

The information that has presented in this article is an extremely basic look at databases. If you'd like to learn how to create databases and use manipulate them, then please take a look at the list of related links and books, which are shown below.

MySQL is the most popular open source database system available today, and is currently installed on over two million servers worldwide. In this article Annette takes a look at using the free MyODBC driver to talk to a MySQL database from an ASP script.Active Server Pages are a Microsoft technology that allows developers proficient with either Visual Basic or VBScript to easily adapt their skills and knowledge to the web with very little effort at all. ASP uses ActiveX Data Object (ADO) to connect to several popular database management systems including Microsoft Access and SQL Server, Oracle, dBase and Visual Fox Pro.

It is often helpful to be able to query SQL Server to find out the schema for a certain database, including tables, information about columns in a particular table, the text of a stored procedure and so forth. This comes in handy when building applications ...

Want to write a rock-solid, dependable application, but in record time? Code efficiency is the key! This article provides useful tools and ideas to speed up your database interactions in ASP, as well as a best-practice you just might be convinced to adapt for your database-driven applications.

Databases are one of the most useful of business programs available. They are perfect for all sorts of data storage and retrieval, for example, employee records, inventory control, client marketing, logistics, equipment records and more.

In my recent XML.com article, Introduction to Native XML Databases, I provided a general overview of native XML databases and what they might be good for. In this article we'll take a look at a native XML database implementation, the open source dbXML Core.

When you need to store and display a modest amount of structured or semistructured data, it's tempting to store it directly in an HTML file. I've used this strategy many times; undoubtedly you have too. The advantages and disadvantages of working directly with a presentation format are pretty clear. It's handy that the "database" is a self-contained package that can be updated using any text editor, emailed, read directly from a file system, or served by any web server.