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Does Oracle have a competitive rival? [closed]
It seems like most other industries have at least two, if not more, rivals that are vying for dominance. For example:
Operating Systems: Microsoft vs. Apple (and in some domains Linux);
Processors: ...
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How to add a record to a database in asp .NET [migrated]
I currently have a Microsoft Access database which is being accessed through an ASP .NET front end. I am trying to add a row to a table, but this doesn't appear to be working, the code I am using is ...
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I am trying to figure out how difficult or expensive it would be to add this feature
I am trying to figure out how difficult/time consuming it would be to add the following feature:
We have a database with our subscribers and we want to send updates to paying subscribers. The catch ...
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Dealing with large amounts of web service requests and storing that data
I have a desktop application that sends a POST request to my website every 5 minutes. This post request can contain a variable amount of data about the PC sending the request, but typically it ...
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Calculating Keyword Weight [migrated]
I am building a system to automatically assemble keywords based on what content the user has input into it. Is there a database somewhere of words and their associated weight, so when the keywords are ...
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Can I use the database structure of an open source project?
I found a database structure for a CMS system and I want to copy it with the EF that this database is done in, is it OK to copy the database structure of open source software which is under GNU v2 ...
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Technique for multiple users on same datasets
This is more a learning question than coding, but I'm certain it's a common issue for anyone developing administration systems or applications in php/mysql/js etc.
I've developed quite a complex ...
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How to store personal information properly?
It's not about security or something. There is a table to record user information, like username, password, postcode and so on, one record per person. There is also a table called post to record the ...
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Do paint programs also need database?
I was thinking about how would a paint software works. Firstly I thought that it might not use any database but when I started thinking about the undo function I realized that it might be that the ...
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Immutable design with an ORM: How are sessions managed?
If I were to make a site with a mutable language like C# and use NHibernate, I would normally approach sessions with the idea of making them as create only when needed and dispose at request end. ...
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What are the relative advantages of dictionaries versus databases?
I have an environment that supports both dictionaries (json style) and databases (not relational or anything, just formatted data by row and column). My application doesn't really need database ...
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cost trade-offs for deploying changes to prod, stored procs vs. LINQ
Some context for thisi question: it is not about development time over the entire iteration of development, but just the stage of deploying changes from dev to prod environment. "LINQ" here really ...
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Who's responsible for a master / slave switch?
We are introducing a master / slave replication schema in our web application. At certain scenarios we would prefer to explicitly direct reads to a slave and writes to the master, which to me is an ...
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several similar tables vs several one-to-one relationships?
I have a sort of blog application that I'm working on for constrained writing. The posts have several types, and share some columns in common (title, body for instance), but they also have columns ...
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Benchmarking databases
I see lots of discussions flying around about performance of db 'x' or that moving from 'x' to 'y' improved our site performance.
I'm yet to see proper benchmarking that works across different types ...
