An alternative model, the table-oriented programming model, allows the application source code to be aware of the actual database structure instead of hiding it in a mapping layer deep in the ...

Programming in the 1960s had a big problem: computers weren’t that powerful yet, and somehow they needed to split the capacities between data structures and procedures. This meant that if you ...

Object-relational mapping (ORM) is a way to align programming code with database structures. ORM uses metadata descriptors to create a layer between the programming language and a relational database.