Microsoft has added a new free tier for Azure Cosmos DB, its multi-model, globally distributed cloud database. Here's how it works.

When it comes to operational, third normal form approaches, too many database models today have very low levels of business veracity. This is because current IT trends work against incorporating too ...

With the increase in demand of complex information modeling, object-oriented database models are put on the agenda. But information imperfection is inherent in the real-world applications. To deal ...

Management Science, Vol. 36, No. 8 (Aug., 1990), pp. 887-899 (13 pages) We focus on ways of combining simple database models with managerial intuition. We present a model and method for isolating ...

Under usual circumstances, the one-to-many or many-to-many relationship, alone, drives the pattern used within the database model. Certainly, the logical database model should represent the proper ...