Microsoft Excel allows you to copy Web data directly from a website using a Web query. This has the effect of giving you indirect access to the underlying database. You can pull the data directly into ...

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In the world of Big Data, there's a lot of talk about unstructured data -- after all, "variety" is one of the three Vs. Often these discussions dwell on log file data, sensor output or media content.

Connections from web pages and applications to databases are an important aspect of providing dynamic content to users. Web Services strives to maintain the integrity of its web servers and all ...

What’s your hobby? Mine is amateur investing and the Web helps me a lot. I can log on to one of my favorite financial information sites and look up the latest share prices, or I can log on to a ...

Learn how to access a MySQL database from the Web using PHP, including how to read from and write to the database and how to filter potentially troublesome input data. Previously, in our work with PHP ...

Once you have your data in XML, a world of opportunities and tools (both client side and server side) are open to you. Phillip Perkins is a contractor with Ajilon Consulting. His experience ranges ...