When databases became available for the personal computer in the mid-1980s, they quickly gained a mystique as the ultimate productivity applications. Despite their widespread use, in some ways they ...

Let's face it, databases are only minimally human-readable. Or, at least, that's the case in OpenOffice.org Base, regardless of whether you view a database's tables directly or filter them through a ...

I just opened a retail location for my IT consulting biz, and expect to have some walk-in clients. I'd like to work up some sort of system that will store the client's contact information and ...