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Network Databases - 2 [migrated]

I fail to see why my previous question was closed. I merely asked whether or not there were any free/open source network (IDMS-type) databases, with the implication that, if there were, an indication ...
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Database with history journaling [closed]

In the database I need to store a data about vehicles (about 240 objects), their locations, working job, etc. In my table this info stored in one table. User should not input everyday this info. It ...
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Network Databases [closed]

I am doing some research on network database e.g. IDMS-type databases. Are there any free/open source network databases available? TIA
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SQL Server database files on different disk as is OS installed

My very short overview SQL Server databases are installed as virtual machines on VMWare, there are plugged a few disk areas with the same (or very similair) parameters versions are SQL Server ...
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Switching to NoSQL for native JSON use?

I am rather comfortable writing concrete schemas with explicit primary keys, foreign keys, indexes, views and stored procedures. For queuing I use a NoSQL solution called: Redis. Recently I heard a ...
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Relational vs Non-Relational Database for Events Database

I'm trying to find out whether an SQL or no-SQL solution would be better for creating an events database. I'm creating a ticketing system, similar to ticket master. I know that for either ...
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Approach for a 2,000 table migration

What might be the best approach when converting or migrating a database containing over 2,000 tables? Where would you begin to tackle such an issue? Steps to take in the first weeks of designing? ...
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How to identify computer specifications [closed]

We need to assemble a system that can store streaming data from a dozen sensors, including several cameras, averaging >5 Gb / minute. The desired data storage system is a single machine running a DBMS ...
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Which dbms will suit my requirements best?

In my app I get data from two sources, from source 1 I get around 125000 records per seconds, say record type A, and from source 2 I get around 10000 records, per seconds ,say record type B. Now I ...
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mySQL- large database

I need guideline to setup DBMS(MYSQL or SQL Server 2008). The database size is expected upto 80-100GB in next few months. One main table will contain textual content like essays. Can MySQL handle such ...
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good practices of creating tables in mysql [closed]

Hi I was thinking of developing an web apllication using php and mysql. Application will give a professor the required data about the student. i want to design application considering Engineering ...
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Suggested Database and Web Application Framework for Enterprise, “Big-Data” App? [closed]

I have a web application that I have been developing for a small group within my company over the past few years, using Pipeline Pilot (plus jQuery and Python scripting) for web development and ...
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Database theories possible topics to research through [closed]

I need to conduct a research on database theories. I want to know what possible questions should I research on which is believed to be suitable when researching database topics for a online assessment ...
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Real Time data collection - Help select Database

My Scenario: I want to collect data from various sensors[for now I have 600 sensors sending data, but this may have to scale up to 3000 more data sensors, all sensors send real time data] Now I have ...
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How can I move 5 GB data from one database to another faster?

I'm using MySQL as database with Windows server. I'm having 5 GB of data in database. Now I need to change my server and the question is that how can I transfer complete 5 GB data to one mysql ...
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Digital asset management

I'm working in a company that currently develops Media Asset Management system and now we want to improve our system for document files. I have to search nearly thousand .doc and .pdf files and index ...
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Which database is designed for storing and incrementing values?

We're trying to build a stats server that stores visits for each document on a section for a specific date, so we need a table that has the following parameters: documentID sectionID date visits ...
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“Related search” trick in huge Hypertable database?

Several years ago, I've created search engine using PHP with MySQL (MyISAM) The "Related search" pick 5 most similar search title. The data has growing bigger in matter of days. Each submission has ...
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Should I create a separate user table for different web products within the same platform?

We have a web product for young professional that gives them the possibility to create their page to show their professional identity. So a table users that has both information about the user (email, ...
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Which database type to use

I want to implement database for following application:- User creates task and assigns to other user who can furthur split it into subtasks and assign it to other users.creaking a tree like ...
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NoSQL, CouchDB vs. CouchBase, What should i do?

I started to encounter some issues on my production site, when having a web page that needs to load a very big ResultSet (currently coming from relational database, MySQL) it takes forever, and ...
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What platform for a large record based mathematical database?

Hi I am a civil engineer with some experience of programming but I am not familiar with the vast range of options available today. Hope you could give me any pointers the best way to proceed. I want ...
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Database suitable for data mining

What would be an appropriate / suitable database sans Oracle that would be suitable for the following conditions? data mining includes but does not limit to the following: a. clicking on links b. ...
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Looking for a scalable relational database [closed]

I'm looking for a database that achieves the following: fully ACID. relational with joins. has transactions. allows the administrator to specify sharding rules (for example: users from Europe should ...
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Small Cloud Database

I'm researching the best way to do the following but haven't been able to come up with anything. I'm trying to build a small (probably 3 or so tables with at most 200 records each) relational ...
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is it reasonable to use NoSQL for my project

Imagine you want to write a webapp for selling your car online. A car has a lot of attributes. Like how many doors, color, aircondition, etc. Some of them are simple boolean values, others might need ...
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Which database to use? [closed]

Hey there. I am looking for a free to use for commercial website database that should have these design features, in the given order: Auto-Sharding (getting more free space by adding more server ...
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SQLite or CouchDB for Locational Data Mining Project?

I am currently designing a Data Mining Project where I am going to harvest rather large volumes of Twitter data in order to analyse locational data (geocoded tweets) and do some machine learning with ...
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Simple online collaborative database for many users to add and query… does it exist? [closed]

:) I'm looking to create a VERY simple database that people can subscribe to for a nominal monthly fee... no relational/pivot tables, no complicated expressions, etc... just an easy form of a couple ...
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Which RDBMS has the most advanced “table-valued” functions?

Every Database Management System focuses on specific features and applications. I am using mysql, probably as it is popular and satisfies common needs. However, I came across a problem, which needs ...
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Database structure for a system with multisite

The system I'm working is structured as below. Given that I'm planning to use Joomla as the base. a(www.a.com),b(www.b.com),c(www.c.com) are search portals which allows user to to search for ...
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Keep total transaction in invoice application

I want to make an application called as Invoice Application with MySQL database. Now I have designed this database. Now I want to know is this database good for Invoice Application. I will use MySQL ...
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Save history editable data RDBMS

I want to make application like testing system. Every question has one or many variant of answers (and one or many can be right). I apologize that tutors and students use my testing system. It means ...
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Storing date increments in tables

I'm working on a ASP/MS SQL project that performs a lot of calculations based on dates and time. In one case, the system will lookup a value based on the nearest half hour increment throughout the ...
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oracle database project ideas [closed]

I have to prepare three project ideas for my final year undergraduate project module. I like to work with databases and i want any challenging database design and implementation with various ...
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database software suggestions? [closed]

I have a small medical marketing business that leads me into the offices of 300-400 physicians, some of whom share office locations. I visit some of these physicians once per month and others up to an ...
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Is there a tool to check if my database is normalized to the third normal form?

I learned about normalization recently, and understand how important it is when implementing a new schema. How can I check if my database is 2NF or 3NF compliant ? Manual review is a sure option, ...
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Curious Database building Problem (ER Diagram)

I am trying to build an EER Model for a Autostore that has 5 locations and offers a range of auto products. They offer car repairs and roadworthy tests as a service also. I need to be able to make ...
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Is there any benefit to defragmenting SQL indexes in a SAN environment?

Our SQL server lives on a SAN. It contains dozens of OLTP databases, some with several tables containing over 1m records. We have been running Ola Hallengren's index maintenance scripts weekly, and ...
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Database design experienced view

I want to make a database that stores countries, their respective states, and cities. I am confused how to normalize these. Can anyone help? My ideas: Table 1 Countries (id pk, name , code) ...
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Is this database fine for calculation?

I am doing an application called as Invoice Application.For that I have my database is like this. Now my problem comes when I am taking the tax part in my database.As I have made tax as an option ...
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Local database vs Amazon RDS

I am doing large INSERT into a local MySQL database I am at 2,000,000 rows and am really starting to notice the slowdown now. I always heard that MySQL wasn't very scalable I expect this database to ...
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Are there any in-memory hybrid databases available?

I am looking for a database that is - Relational (Not NoSQL). Has an in-memory store. Has disk-based backing storage. I want to set up a system where entire contents of the disk are replicated in ...
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NuoDB with Amazon S3

I think about developing my new mobile and web app against NuoDB. I believe in their technology. The thing that I care the most is backup and restore in case of data corruption and read / write speed ...
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Oracle VPD Implementation?

Our team is implementing VPD into the already existing Schema. The application is currently used by one customer and in order to generalize the application we need to implement VPD in our schema. The ...
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SQL Server SSIS issue retrieve data when i enter into login of server side?

can any one try solve my problem here i am facing a problem Failed to retrieve data when i enter into login of server side here is the error message TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ...
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How to do automated archiving for a SQL Server database based on interpretation of database metadata?

I am looking for a solution giving me automated archiving of SQL Server databases based on a smart interpretation of table relationships that is able to archive records from related tables minimizing ...
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Which database?

We have to launch a new service in my company with a big database. And I currently don't have that much knowledge. We did a small preview of the service and our biggest table had more than 2 100 000 ...
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One table with many rows or many tables with a few rows

I'm having a question rounding my mind. It's better to create one table and store a lot of rows there or create various tables and have a few rows on them? What's the performance and the I/O saved at ...
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which database engine is best for full text search on a 10M rows table?

I'm creating a search engine and needs to search keywords in a text field (about 300 words in each text field, unstructured). I'm thinking about noSQL\MySQL+Sphinx, the performance impact here is ...

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