Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...

There's been a shift in the enterprise Java community when it comes to what has commonly been referred to as an "application server." What was an application server? Historically, when an enterprise ...

We’re all familiar with the IT “war room” scenario. When there’s an issue, members of the IT team come together to troubleshoot and find a solution. For organizations with important applications, such ...

One of the interesting design challenges facing the people supporting the IEED research effort discussed yesterday involves how much of the key applications to embed in the database design. In that ...

To understand how to do proper application server development, you need to understand how the two basic containers of an application server work, namely the Web container and the EJB container. This ...

As organizations strive to deliver always-on access to applications users, it can be challenging to provide authorized access while simultaneously protecting against cyber-attacks. To address these ...

From performance to programmability, the right database makes all the difference. Here are 13 key questions to guide your selection. Picking the “right” database can often be critical to the success ...

We’ve all done it. We needed to pull data out of an SQL database, and the query we needed to pull out data was a complex query with multiple table joins, complex filter criteria, and sophisticated ...

In a non-Web environment, an application server performs the business logic (the data processing), although some amount of business logic may be handled by the user's machine. In a private or public ...