Ok so I was talking to someone about this and they were saying they were using a snowflake schema for this pattern. Now I'm new to data warehouse architecture, that is something I am looking to expand ...

The first thing in building any E-commerce app is creating the underlying database to support it. As much as possible, you should try to build your application code and business logic into your ...

I’ve been tasked with the classic, “Here’s some Word docs and Excel sheets, can this be a database?” sort of situation. I’ve dabbled in SQL enough to come up with an initial design, but I don’t know ...

Peter returns to improve performance by splitting a single table into multiple entities, but this time, he implements his solution using the Entity Framework 6 designer. In an earlier column this ...

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.