Building database apps for a workgroup used to be a simple task. All we need is a new, modern set of Web tools to make that task easy again A friend of mine needs a simple database application to ...

LongJump, a Sunnyvale, Calif. company is the latest company offering a simple “database as a service” product, following on the heels of similar services announced by Amazon (see its S3/SimpleDB ...

Originally, Excel was not designed to be a real database. Its early database functions were limited in quantity and in quality. And because every record in an Excel database is visible on the screen ...

This article originally appeared in our sister publication, Builder Australia, as part of the Ask Chuck column. I want to create a Windows Application that allows a user to enter/edit/access data that ...

Gleamd, a user-generated "Digg of people," as it has been called, launched this week with new features and a refreshed design from its beta program. The core of Gleamd is a database of people, ...

Airtable is an online platform for creating, using, and sharing small relational databases. It’s not ready for enterprise users yet (that’s coming), but right now, if you want help managing data for ...

Oracle's database software is still widely used, but cloud computing has disrupted its business model. There's no doubt the company is losing mindshare among developers and start-ups. A free developer ...