Library of Free Data Models

Stumbled upon this great library of database models/schemas (searchable) for a vast number of business scenarios from auction web site to asset management to search engines.…

Yahoo! Pipes and The Web As Database

The article Yahoo! Pipes and The Web As Database explores the emergent world of Yahoo! Pipes. The author sees some interesting parallels with Relational Databases in the 90’s, concluding that with pipes, the Web essentially becomes a giant database that can be queried and remixed in any number…

Oracle SQL Developer

Oracle SQL Developer (formerly Project Raptor) is a new, free graphical tool for database development. I’ve been using Toad for Oracle (from Quest Software), but for the next roudup I’ll give Raptor a try and see how it goes. Update: Apparently, as part of the software…