It seems like an elementary thing but dealing with numbers beyond whole integers in software is tricky. Differences between rounding in code vs rounding in database storage can catch you off guard if ...

I've written before about Microsoft's overtures to the PHP community, with the August release of PHP Drivers for SQL Server being the latest step in an ongoing effort to provide interoperability ...

A typical screen in your user interface probably combines data from several different tables. To handle that, I typically have my back-end processes generate Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) which combine ...

An ORM (Object Relational Mapping) tool is one that is used to abstract the data access logic of your application. You can use ORM to bridge the apparent mismatch between the data and the object ...