They’re here! As I indicated in my last post, Progress DataDirect has some new product releases to announce: Connect/Connect64 for ODBC 6.1 Release Highlights Expanded Bulk Load Support Enhanced Enterprise-Quality Driver Logging Increased Breadth of Support Connect for JDBC 4.2 Release Highlights Expanded Bulk Load Support Increased Breadth of Support The enhancements to our Bulk [...]
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How’s your performance? No, it’s not a personal question, it’s the most common question that we get from customers about our products. “Sure, you have lots of great features,” they’ll say. “But how’s your performance?” Great question! I have always loved to answer this one but I especially love to do so now. More and [...]
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Everyone, myself included, likes to have an idea of what’s coming in order to plan ahead more effectively. For example, if you knew that Apple was about to release a redesign to the iPhone in the next month, you might hold off on buying one until it’s been released. Software professionals are no different – [...]
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Last week, the majority of commentary of Sybase was all about SAP’s push to expand into the burgeoning mobile market. The ASA product line has definitely made inroads which will give SAP an immediate leg up,, the real key to this new relationship is this: the business information market. SAP’s purchase of Sybase was [...]
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The final post in my series on performance tuning Progress DataDirect products will cover performance tuning options for Connect and Connect64 for ODBC SQL Server Native Wire Protocol driver. The first thing to note is that the SQL Server Native Wire Protocol driver is available starting with the 6.0 service pack 2 release of Connect [...]
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This week marks the release of two new product service packs for our ADO.NET and ODBC product lines. Service packs mostly consist of a roll-up of bug fixes to our products but occasionally include certifications for specific database and platform versions. So here’s a list of what is included in each of these service packs: [...]
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Annual prognostications are typically overly optimistic, so for 2010’s soothsaying I’ve opted for a more pragmatic approach. Austerity drives innovations in doing more with less – The 2009 budgetary hangovers while I expect to less restrictive this year, will drive nearly all purchasing decisions this year. A need to demonstrate obvious and immediate on any [...]
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In this podcast Rob Steward shares why Progress Software is a great place to work, and he provides insights into corporate culture. This podcast lasts for 3:24.
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I recently read a blog entry where the author went to great lengths to explain what he did to make an application originally compiled as 64-bit for production deployment onto a 64-bit Windows platform work with the the 32-bit ODBC driver that he was using. My reaction, well, yeah, that’s one way to solve your [...]
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We frequently encounter customers who are using SQL Server, Teradata, DB2, Sybase and other databases, who want to integrate these data sources with their Oracle environments. Generic Connectivity, also referred to as Heterogeneous Services or OHS, enables users to integrate data that may exist on several different databases. In this post, we will focus on [...]
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