When working on a multidimensional design, every fact table within scope should be handled with care. In an ideal world, each low-level fact table represents the metrics related to a business event.

In this third and final installment on using SQLite from C++, I want to begin exploring some of the internals of this amazing little database engine. SQLite does things quite differently than most ...

The superiority of surrogate versus natural keys is a hotly debated topic among database developers. Susan Harkins offers some insights into when — and why — you might choose one over the other.