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Once a somewhat marginal category of software, databases have become a more and more important part of technical communication practice. Today databases often drive documentation collections, including content management systems and wikis. The most sophisticated databases primarily use the SQL language.
76. #30657 Why (Almost) Every Web Site Needs an RDBMS When your Web application reaches a certain size, it needs a good database design behind it. And in fact, this 'certain size' is much smaller than almost every small-site developer thinks. Relational Data Base Management Systems (RDBMSes) need not be restrictive or over-architected, as their bad reputation sometimes brings developers to fear. A bit of thought toward what your site does quickly turns into a sensible schema design, and it is easy to leave open expandable storage mechanisms like a configuration table within an RDBMS back end. Mertz, David. IBM (2007). Articles>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Databases 77. #27036 Work with XML in Microsoft Access 2003 If you are a Microsoft Access user, you'll be happy to know that you can export Access 2003 data as XML. O'Reilly and Associates (2005). Articles>Information Design>Databases>Microsoft Access 78. #30115 Working With External Data Sources in FileMaker Pro 9 FileMaker 9 opens up ODBC data in a revolutionary way, via the new feature External SQL Data Source. You can work with external data in your FileMaker Pro solutions as if it is FileMaker Pro data. Stars, Jonathan. FileMaker Advisor (2007). Articles>Information Design>Databases>SQL 79. #28616 Working With External Text Files in Microsoft Access 2007 Step-by-step procedure explained with a large number of screen shots. Both linking and importing are described. Krishnaswamy, Jayaram. OfficeUsers.org (2007). Articles>Software>Databases>Microsoft Access 80. #30114 XML will change the way you develop and integrate your databases. Trytten, Chris. FileMaker Advisor (2002). Articles>Information Design>Databases>XML 81. #27660 XQuery speeds up the process of finding information contained in an XML document, which is very handy when dealing with long XML documents. This article, the first of two parts, will teach you how to write XQuery expressions. Dev Articles (2006). Articles>Information Design>Databases>XML 82. #27661 XQuery speeds up the process of finding information contained in an XML document -- which is very handy when dealing with long XML documents. This article, the second of two parts, will teach you how to write XQuery expressions. Dev Articles (2006). Articles>Information Design>Databases>XML
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