Database administrators use software to store and organize data, such as financial information and customer shipping records. They make sure that data are available to users and are secure from ...

Typically, most applications consist of both batch and online workloads. This is true even today, when most of our attention has turned to online and web-based interaction. Sure, online activities are ...

Last month, we began looking at Ruby on Rails, a Web development framework that has captured a great deal of attention in only a short time. Much of the success of Rails is due to the ease with which ...