application-dependency

Application/Server dependency mapping

I'm just curious as to whether such as tool exists (free, open source, or commercial but for a reasonable price) before I build it myself. We're looking for a simple solution to simplify taking web apps online and offline when a server is undergoing maintenance. The idea is that we be able to mark a server as unavailable, and then mark...

Circular dependencies in foreign keys: use it or avoid it?

My application loads lots of data from a database into a complex data structure. The in-memory data structure ressembles the structure of the database, which means that if the database contains the following tables: table A, key is A1 table B, key is B1, one of the columns is a foreign key to [the key of] table A table C, key is C1, o...