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Application Design with a Shared Database

I have a generic design question that relates to enterprise applications but I think that software developers from other types of projects may have experience with this as well. The scenario is ...
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3answers
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Search on multiple values

I have a database having around 15 tables.Currently I am working on a report generation page, which is having 16 criteria.The values are distributed among multiple tables.User can select any number of ...
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3answers
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Using a database for each module in a system [duplicate]

I was reading this question: I was trying to standardize and modularize some functions (Email Management Module, CMS Module & etc) by implementing a 3-tier architecture concept where each ...
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2answers
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Designing a Web Application with Two Different Backend Databases [closed]

I'm working on a pretty standard LAMP based web application. The server itself has a standard MySQL database and the application is written in PHP. The kicker is, we also use SQL Server databases ...
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1answer
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Methodologies for Managing Users and Access?

This is something I'm having a hard time getting my head around. I think I might be making it more complicated than it is. What I'm trying to do is develop a method to store users in a database with ...
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2answers
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Design pattern for access to tree-like database in Java?

I'm developing a Roleplaying character viewer/manager programme for a locap LARP system. The Characters have access to skills that are layed out in a tree-like structure. There are a lot of skills, ...
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2answers
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Which is a better design pattern for a database wrapper: Save as you go or Save when you're done?

I know this is probably a bad way to ask this question. I was unable to find another question that addressed this. The full question is this: We're producing a wrapper for a database and have two ...
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Main class passes dbConn obj to all its services, I need to change the dbConn for one of its services. - suggestion for design pattern

There is this main class and there are several services ( which uses db connection to retrieve data ) These services are initialized in the main class db properties are obtained from the property ...
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2answers
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“Don't cross the streams” Database access objects independant of the Data tier in an N-Tier architecture?

I'm adding functionality to our website which performs long-running processes asynchronously using MSMQ. Doing this ansynch, however means we need to notify users when their requests are completed. ...
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How to store prices that have effective dates?

I have a list of products. Each of them is offered by N providers. Each providers quotes us a price for a specific date. That price is effective until that provider decides to set a new price. In ...
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What is the difference between all-static-methods and applying a singleton pattern?

I am making a database to store information about the users of my website (I am using stuts2 and hence Java EE technology). For the database I'll be making a DBManager. Should I apply singleton ...
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Best way to model a singleton in a relational database

When designing relational database schema for web applications, I often find a case where I end up creating a table just to contain one row, and only one row. It feels like that is the wrong way to ...