I started out in Database Design early in my application development career. I still remember being issued with an official IBM stencil for drawing Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs). Change ...

It's been a few years now since Salesforce.com packed out a Sunnyvale hotel and introduced its Apex developer platform. That was the company's first move away from its Software as a Service roots, and ...

Pivotal database design tools such as Computer Associates' venerable ERwin may show the way. Early last month, the vendor released a version of its AllFusion Modeling Suite that is anchored by the ...