Web Site, Database and Miva Merchant Programming, Maintenance

Webmaster Design Programs

      Using a database can add powerful interactive features to your Web site and save publishing time.Databases are the heart and soul of many of the recent enterprise applications and it is very essential to pay special attention to database programming.

      Databases or RDBMS play very important role in almost any online activity today.
There is a database backend behind every major online business website.
 

Business Intelligence

      Business Intelligence term describes the process of gathering information and knowledge through the process of analyzing business data. The purpose of business intelligence is to facilitate better business decisions, utilizing the newly found knowledge about the business and its business processes.

      Business Intelligence process consists of 3 distinct tasks.

      The first challenge business intelligence faces is gathering the necessary data about the business. The key for gathering data is automating the process. Gathering data was very time and money consuming in the past, but with today's modern computer systems, it's much easier to collect data from various sources.

      The second business intelligence task is to analyze the collected data and to extract information from it. The extracted information is then turned into business knowledge.

      The third and final business intelligence task is to use the newly gathered business knowledge to improve the business.

Miva Merchant

      Miva Merchant is a dynamic browser based  large piece of commercial software, and as such will require a more significant capital investment than osCommerce. Fortunately many website hosting companies offer what is essentially a "rental" of a Miva Merchant licence for a much smaller fee compared to an outright purchase direct from Miva Small Business. Anyone considering this option should be aware that using a hosting company's licence means that licence will remain with the hosting company even if they decided to leave. Miva Merchant does provide for import and export of customers and products, though, so a new cart can be setup at a new host with relatively little inconvenience.

      Miva Merchant has a complete set of wizards to simplify the process of building your store. Miva is still best known for its Miva Merchant e-commerce solution, which recently hit version 5. The new version includes a number of new and improved features that will likely help to keep the name Miva synonymous with e-commerce storefronts for some time to come.

What is a database,  Can using database help my business,

      There are many definitions of the term "database" and one of the most common once is that the database is a collection of information/knowledge stored in digital format.

      The database can be in form of a flat text file or can be a relational database.
Relational databases are structured in fields, records, and database tables. The database table consists of one or more database rows, and each database row consists of one or more database fields. Examples of Relational databases are MS SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL.

MySQL

      MySQL is an open source relational database management system released under GNU General Public License. The Swedish company called MySQL AB develops MySQL.

      MySQL is available on many different platforms including Microsoft Windows, the major Linux distributions, UNIX , and Mac OS X.

      MySQL is without a doubt the most popular open source database in the world.

 

Microsoft Access

      Microsoft Access is an entry-level database management software and it’s one of the most popular Microsoft products. MS Access comes with the professional edition of MS Office package. MS Access use the Jet database engine which utilize a specific SQL language dialect (often refered to as Jet SQL).

      MS Access is a paid product and runs only on Windows platform.

      MS Access has easy to use intuitive graphical interface, which makes it one of the most popular database software among small business.

Oracle

      Oracle is a relational database management system developed by Oracle Corporation.

      The Oracle RDBMS is used in many database applications on sevarl OS platforms, including Unix and Windows. Oracle database was initially developed by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates. Their company Software Development Laboratories was founded in 1977 (renamed to Relational Software, Inc. in 1979). In 1983 the company was renamed to Oracle Corporation.

      PL-SQL short for Procedural Language/Structured Query Language is Oracle's server-based extension to the SQL language.