A database is any organized collection of data organized to provide efficient retrieval.

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Create and access database connection

I'm working on an MVC project and I'm writing the code for get access to the database connection. I have two files: The first (PdodbLib.class.php) extends PDO: ...
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SQL database design for ecommerce

I need to create a database which stores details products, Manufactures,Suppliers. So initially I divided Products into categories and subcategories. These are the tables I created. ...
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Checking for duplicate values in database with Python

I'm working on a Python application where I read and extract data from an HTML file. The data is stored in a list, and the number of items in a list is, on average, 50,000+. The items from the list ...
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Queue like system to check existence of email

I have a table in my database containing email and email_state amongst other values. Email is the email of the contact, and ...
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Reducing database access time and connection count [closed]

I have 2 connections. How can I reduce this to one connection? ...
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How do I optimize this MongoDB query

Here is the query in the Rails console: ...
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Lazy Load for multiple entities at a time

We have a system with a non standard database solution. All trips to the DB are rather expensive. We cannot use entity framework. Currently our lazy loading is on an entity by entity basis. So if I ...
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Modeling a Mage character from nWoD, using Django

Goal Design a representation of a mage character from the World of Darkness RPG, as well their associated spells. Here is a visual representation of the schema. You can see it more closely ...
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Create SQLite backups

I have this script for creating SQLite backups, and I was wondering whether you'd have any suggestions on how to improve this. I was thinking that maybe it should create the backup ...
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Rails models for Users, Offers, Comments, Documents, and Reviews

I want to simplify my Rails models, current looks like this: ...
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Auto-expire key/value database (with different key types) in Haskell using acid-state

I am making a key-value database using acid-state. It has three similar "pools", one for cookie records, one for email verification of new accounts, and the last for resetting passwords. There are ...
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Database abstraction layer for PHP web application

I'm working on a PHP based web application. While building the UserStorage class, (which acts as a storage source for user data, and implements the ...
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Optimizing for data import in Neo4j using py2neo

Here is my code for importing from a .csv to a neo4j graph using py2neo and cypher statements. I've noticed that it slows down significantly the bigger the graph gets. It takes several seconds just to ...
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Creating keyword records in a database

This code is part of a data model used to create keyword records in a database. ...
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How common is the use of closure in Lisp?

I'm writing a little tool for mangling MP3 collections and, as a challenge, I decided to write in in Hy, a dialect of Python that uses Lisp syntax. Like every good developer, I wrote out my list of ...
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Bitcoin, detecting deposits to the node.js server

I'm trying to detect deposits that user will made. I explained it with comment lines in below. Can you say are there any flaw in it? ...
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Summing the prices from Transaction files

I need to cut down the run time of this query. Currently it's taking 45 minutes. Is there something I can change in the table or the query to allow this to run faster? ...
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OOP QueryHandler in PHP

I have a simple database connection class which is using PDO: ...
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Small PHP DAO app

I'm creating a small app and decided to write my own DAO for learning, etc. At the moment it's in one big file, which I really don't like. Could you give me some tips on how: you would separate ...
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Cancelling an order with a side-effect of logging the operation

I have a data access layer method to cancel an order. This operation should have an associated "operation history" entry. My first (naïve) implementation looks like this: ...
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TrackDAO: what can be improved?

In this specific situation there is a table with trackdata and a form to add rows. For the sake of clarity I won't include the view-related code here. The added rows are added to a LinkedList when ...
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Django Model field naming convention for lookup tables

I'm currently in the process of refactoring a Django app to use Django REST Framework. Within the existing code there are 15 models for lookup tables. The structure of each model is as follows (using ...
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Dynamic connections classes

I have an abstract Connection class which looks like this: ...
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Looking up the name and event for a ticket

This code is from my Kohana project. How can I make it more beautiful? Should I use try-catch instead? How could I avoid writing exit() twice? ...
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Dapper helper service

I've written a very light wrapper around Dapper to help with unit testing and streamlining the Dapper commands I need. Execute() is a method created to remove the ...
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Connecting to a MySQL database with C#

Can anyone help me with checking this code? It is for connecting to a database. The method getFromDatabase is to take values from the database and put it to a ...
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PDO PHP DB Class

I've been building a PDO PHP DB class and I just wonder if someone could give me some feedback (regarding security, how the code is written and how I can optimize it). This class is not finished ...
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Database assignment with MySQL and Swing

I have completed this assignment from Stanford CS108 on MySQL and Swing (it's part B). It would be wonderful if someone could point out my weak spots in the code and overall design. I have uploaded ...
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Data Access Layer and Business Objects

This is my first cut at separating the data access layer out of my very old spaghetti codebase. I have tried to keep this as simple as possible, it is for a small project, so I am not really ...
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School Library Management System

I require feedback on the plethora of bad practices that are definitely existing in the following code: ...
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Schema design for user profile

I have the below schema for user profile management: ...
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Facade pattern usage with JDBC-resource on Glassfish

For this project: ...
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Structuring my MongoDB application documents

I'm just starting out on an application and I've heard some good things about MongoDB so I thought I'd give it a crack in this new project to see how well it works. Please bear in mind that prior to ...
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Real-time bitcoin data feed and storage using websocket framework

I'm trying to create data feed script for real time bitcoin data for OkCoin exchange using their websocket API (documentation) and a database manager for storing. There are two channels i am ...
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Out of one Oracle into another

A project that I have been working on required data to be transferred from an Oracle database into MySQL. The process I devised for that transfer involved a query (included below) on the Oracle ...
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Trading Card Game database schema for statistics

This database schema will be used in conjunction with various systems as related to an online Trading Card Game, mostly for permanent storage and statistics. Some example cases would include: JDBC ...
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PHP MySQL Database class

This is a PHP database class. Yes, I know it's using the MySQL functions, which are deprecated, but I shall be updating it to MySQLi soon. Can you please review this code and give any comment on any ...
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Structure of database model for a Flask project

I'm working on a project with Flask and I'm trying to follow Miguel Grinberg's Flask tutorial as closely as possible while creating what I need for my own project. Overall, how does it look? Miguel's ...
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SQL table: store “status” as integer vs as string [closed]

I've been around a bunch of projects where statuses are stored in the db as a integer, then mapped in the model back to a human readable string: ...
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Using Custom Attributes to Populate Members from IDataReader

Just learned how to use custom attributes in C# and the first useful thing I did with it was to make a class object representing a database table. The constructor can accept an ...
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Simple Database Abstraction Layer

I'm learning PHP and currently object-oriented programming. I would like to get a feedback; how I'm doing so far. If I have bad coding that should be fixed immediately etc. I'd call this code an ...
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Observable storage - revised

Previous question: JavascriptObservable Storage The idea is to have some storage interface that exists of different buckets - known as Eagles: ...
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Sharing a database connection with multiple modules

I am building what essentially could be viewed as a glorified database wrapper as a Python package, where I'm having several classes and functions spread out into different modules. My current problem ...
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Realizing a SQL ResultSet into a Map in Scala

I am trying to realize a java.sql.ResultSet into a map, in Scala. ...
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Singleton Database class

Currently my team is building an application involving a database. We have to write a lot of data (approx 2,000,000 records) to the database and therefore we decided to open a connection once and ...
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Core Data model for test-taking iOS app

I'm building an iOS app for test-taking and I want to be sure of my model before proceeding. I found this post very helpful and tried to implement a simplified version for Core Data. Here are some ...
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Deleting a user from a database

I was hoping if anyone could tell me if I'm doing this correctly, I know there are other questions like this but everyone codes different and I just feel that I'm not doing this right. I'm trying to ...
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High school social network query for friends in common

This is sourced from the Stanford Coursera self study DB class SQL quizzes: Students at your hometown high school have decided to organize their social network using databases. So far, they have ...
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Managing “Jobs” data in a Database

I've been working in a small page with some easy CRUD. The data I get from the database is getting shown on the page. But the way how i show the data feels a bit off. I guess it can be done in a much ...