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All it takes is the right tools to extend the life span -- and leverage the business value of -- legacy apps A trend dubbed “legacy evolution” offers hope if you work at one of the estimated 10,000 ...

Excel possesses formidable database powers. Creating a relational database starts with a Master table that links it to subordinates, called (awkwardly) Slave, Child, or Detail tables. Before we dive ...

Flat file databases cause insertion, deletion and update anomalies. Use of relational databases where primary and foreign keys are used to link tables helps overcome these issues. Analysis Inputs, ...