So, I lost my USB stick. No big deal - except it has my password database on it. [more inside]
posted on Jun 16, 2008 - 13 answers

How to get a relational database on a mobile device, and query it using J2ME? [more inside]
posted on Mar 23, 2008 - 5 answers

What are best practices for storing arbitrary form data? More inside... [more inside]
posted on Jan 24, 2008 - 6 answers

Please help me with a giant SQL-ish mess. I need a better solution than MS Access for dealing with millions of records and building queries. [more inside]
posted on Nov 19, 2007 - 12 answers

Sum of data for all months, including months with no rows, in MySQL? [more inside]
posted on Nov 15, 2007 - 7 answers

After hearing this story on NPR this morning about the Harmony Database of al Qaeda correspondence, I began wondering what other public databases like this exist out there that are ripe for analysis and picking apart. I'm looking specifically for things like this related to the "War on Terrorism" and the Iraq War, but older stuff would be good too.
posted on Oct 23, 2007 - 2 answers

WhereTheHellDoTheyGetAllThatData Filter: When someone wants to start a site that requires huge amounts of data like IMDB or Pandora or Last.FM, where do they get the data? [more inside]
posted on Dec 18, 2006 - 18 answers

What's the best way to store hierarchical information in a database, and what's the best way to retrieve it? [more inside]
posted on Sep 6, 2006 - 11 answers

Building a search engine - how to cope with mis-spellings?
posted on Jul 26, 2004 - 10 answers