Database is probably the one word that is fully familiar to every practicing IT professional. How else are you supposed to be a dab hand at web projects, mobile applications or even computer based software. Industry level applications and definitely those being made so at the business level mostly just require large banks of data storage with an impressive interface to provide for dashboard utilities. Did I capture the gist of what most companies do when they call themselves software houses? That’s what sticking to the enterprise level applications mean and unless you translate the working to higher end business tools, that is in fact the entire generic gist to the job.
The database utilities however are a lot more intricate than your industry level tools and what the half paid for IDEs allow you to see them as. Basically the whole reason why the software boom has become so intrinsically popular in the world nowadays is because of the database capabilities that the software provides. Even your marginal startups of today have operations where data exceeds the capabilities of manual convenience so really when most businesses do ask you for an industry tier software, theyre really asking for a convenient database so that one user can be trained to sit in front of the computer and draw out anything by pressing the “magical keys”. This is in fact a joke that should tell you just how important and mainstream of a standard did databases become and still are as a business need.
So obviously when you end up making these utilities for your clients you need to make sure that they are made with the end purpose in mind and the minimal chances for error bouncing. The design phase of your database creation is more important than many of you realize, in fact drawing those ER diagrams properly and following through with normalization can help you very primarily, mostly by cutting down on the extra tables you get to add after doing all the data allocation. Basically it’s better to design the database fully and put some time in it than have your database be realized as faulty midway through your database implementation and then resulting in further loss of time.
The other issue which many database experts seem to forget is the security of their created pieces. An enterprise query expert can easily edit the contents of your database with playing around in the Insert and Update queries, and that’s just the bottom tier manner in which your data is really vulnerable to outside attack. The proper security measures are all important too because if the business you work for is carrying financial data as pretty much every business does then it’s only necessary to guard all the important financial information. But that is just one example of where security is important, your data needs to be secure for various integrity and business reasons.
The modern scope of databases stems a lot further than just transaction level tools with their integration stemming into the business intelligence tools and data analysis for mining. For now the professionals need to tread around this tool carefully or they should be ready to answer some irate clients.
