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 ...

Diffbot is trying to reorganize all the data on the Web so it can be put to better use. The service “converts the existing Web into a structured database-like representation that can essentially be ...

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.

Moving information from an HTML form into a database is a two-step design process. First, create an entry HTML form capable of passing information to a secondary file. Next, create a Hypertext ...

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 ...