Document databases such as MongoDB garnered rapid and strong support from application developers for multiple reasons. But clearly, one of those reasons is the support for flexible schemas. In the ...

Good software habits apply to databases too. Trust in these little design tips to build a useful, rot-resistant database schema. It is a universal truth that everything in software eventually rots.

No formula exists today for answering this question in quantifiable terms — it requires evaluation and reflection on the part of the organization. Taxonomy and metadata schema design can be hotly ...