It is funny how exotic computer technology eventually either fails or becomes commonplace. At one time, having more than one user on a computer at once was high tech, for example. Then there are ...

JPA-based applications can't connect to a database on their own. Rather, they need help in terms of what credentials to use, which schema to seek, which JDBC driver to select and which annotated ...

Microsoft Access allows business and other large, data-sharing entities to create databases storing vast amounts of information. Anyone using Access can share these database files with one another.

Tables within a database management system (DBMS) need primary keys and defined indexes in order for the DBMS to have the opportunity to provide good query performance. Without indexing, the worst ...

DuckDB is a tiny but powerful analytics database engine—a single, self-contained executable, which can run standalone or as a loadable library inside a host process. There’s very little you need to ...

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There are dozens of file formats for word processing documents, database files, graphics, spreadsheets and so on. If a file was created in one application and you want to use it in another, you can ...