General Topics in Database Development

The tips on this page do not apply to any particular language. They are just our thoughts on some general topics of software development:

• Address formats
• ASCII codes.
• Automatic backups
• "Data", singular or plural?
• Database Support
• Design a form to make data entry easier.
• Duplicate records
• Error handling
• Facebook site for Alvechurch Data.
• Fonts for data entry
• Golden ratio in form design
• Normalizing a database
• OLEDB connection string.
• Searching the site.
• Software Development.
• Specifying a database.
• Top ten tips.
• Tower of Hanoi pattern of backup.
• Types of join in SQL.

Training courses

If you need to know more about database design we run a series of workshops, tutorials and training courses for users and developers of Microsoft FoxPro and Access databases.