Database Design And development
• Completely Dynamic Database Driven Web Sites• From Small to Very Large Scale Databases
• Access, MySql, SQL Server, Oracle
• Windows or Java Implementations
• Hosted or Installed on Customer Equipment
Forget the tedious tasks involved in updating your web site... enter the world of web databases! A forum, guestbook, blog, chat, product catalogue, shopping cart; a majority of the most popular applications on the Internet today involves a connection to a database. Database driven web sites might not be the latest news, but they are more popular than ever and will continue to be popular, just like they been in office’s around the world for a long time.
When the World Wide Web started to evolve, around 1995, it didn’t take long before databases entered the scene. First came flat file text based databases driven by CGI / Perl scripts. After that the web programming languages ASP, PHP and ColdFusion, that more or less built their whole concept on their database connectivity and their middleware capabilities.Nowadays those web programming languages have a much wider range of functions, but are still mostly used in conjunction with some form of database connectivity. If you surf the web right now, every other web site you visit use some form of a database to achieve the things that is impossible to achieve with the old static programming techniques.
What makes our solutions better
First of all, there is a lot of different database software. The most widely known for non-geeks is maybe Microsoft Access.Using Microsoft Access on the web isn't such a good choice because it has many limitations. It can be used on small web sites with low traffic, but as a backbone for a production web site we certainly recommend a more powerful choice.Among the most powerful databases with the widest support on the web today you’ll find Microsoft’s SQL Server and MySQL. Other choices for a web database could be 4D, Sybase, Oracle and, PostgreSQL.
The secret isn’t all about the backbone database software you choose. Most of the troubles with slow loading time on database integrated web pages depends on poorly designed databases, badly tuned SQL questions or unclean code in the middleware scripting languages. Ok, the benefits with a fine tuned database driven web site are plenty!
- The benefits of a database ! First of all… It can handle most of the tedious and boring stuff of the web masters shoulder; updates, schedules, booking, customer data, inventory catalogues, member lists. They can all be automated, and in worst case, written once and used forever.With a well planned database, designed to hold all possible data, you can present the information from it in numerous way. Just a small change in the code of the scripting language can change the whole presentation.
- Add interactivity to that! The users on your site will be able to change content depending on their choices. Searchable databases can present your information in a second with just the data that the visitor is interested in. Imagine you have a web store with 1,000 products, and for every product you have a information page that describes the product with an image, price and a text description. That means you will have 1,000 different pages! Every time you change the price, remove a product or add a product, you will have to manually change the page, remove it or add a new one.
- Then imagine that you have 1 page… yes, ONE Page!!! One page that can do the exact same things that all those other 1000 pages can do, and all you have to do is write the new price, add a few lines or remove a post in a database. That's a huge difference, or what do you think? That’s how a web database works. A web page template shows different things depending on the “values” sent to it through a link, form or a search box. On top of that you can add more functionality. How about inventory information for example? If you’re out of stock on a product it won’t show up at all... automatically! You won't risk grumpy customers that ordered it and wonder why on earth you don’t have the products that you sell. “They are on your web page for god’s sake!” Well, you know the drill.
So you see that there's a lot of power and time to win with a database enabled web site. The web pages create themselves, the maintenance of the site is minimal, and you can spend your valuable time on other things.
