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The web is among humankind's greatest achievements and resources. Ever-expanding and nearly all-encompassing, we've all come to depend on it. There's just one problem: It takes work to get information ...

Connections from web pages and applications to databases are an important aspect of providing dynamic content to users. Web Services strives to maintain the integrity of its web servers and all ...

The content of any website for a business or organization comprises data, including text, images, media and numerical values. Using a database to store this data is an efficient approach for many ...

In a sharp turnaround from its position a decade ago, IBM is suddenly everyone's example of how to run an IT company successfully. Treated as a dinosaur in the early 1990s, Big Blue has become flavour ...

What’s your hobby? Mine is amateur investing and the Web helps me a lot. I can log on to one of my favorite financial information sites and look up the latest share prices, or I can log on to a ...

Microsoft Excel allows you to copy Web data directly from a website using a Web query. This has the effect of giving you indirect access to the underlying database. You can pull the data directly into ...

Want to improve the integrity of your data? Place constraints in the database, as well as in your application. NoSQL, the catchall phrase for non-relational databases, is all the rage among Web ...

I’ve just posted the fourth installment in my new series of Friday podcasts. It’s an interview with Kingsley Idehen, CEO of OpenLink Software. OpenLink’s flagship product is a universal database and ...

My boss wants a DMZ web server to have access to a database server on the internal network. I'm curious what people consider the best practice in this scenario. Would an intermediary proxy be OK? we ...