Performance is always at the top of the list of reasons why customers buy Progress DataDirect products. Even though all of our products are designed to deliver maximum performance out-of-the-box, there are cases where there may be a need to tune a product to get even better performance.
While many customers are aware that our drivers [...]
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Since the announcement of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 2 we have seen torrent of requests from people looking to use our Oracle EF provider with VS 2010. The good news is that we are planning to support it officially in our upcoming service pack, due early next year. The even [...]
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Early on in our EF development cycles, I gave our .NET QA team an unusual challenge:- Spin up our test suites in readiness for our upcoming ADO.NET Entity Framework support for Oracle, except without an pre-QA ADO.NET EF provider ready for Oracle. Our excellent QA got to work and built our the majority of our [...]
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Continuing our theme of how to get up and running with the ADO.NET Entity Framework and Oracle we’ve put together a set of samples and how-to’s for common Visual Studio tasks – console and ASP.NET applications. We’ve included download samples as well:
Console Application
How-To | Sample Code
ASP.NET
How-To | Sample Code
Of course you’ll need a copy of [...]
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Microsoft today made official that the System.Data.OracleClient is being deprecated. In software terms this is code for “it’s not you, it’s me”. Breakups are never easy, but to ease the pain lets look as some of the facts:
It is easy to appreciate that deprecating an established component out of a platform as large as the .NET [...]
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Today has unquestionably been an interesting day for .NET developers who work with Oracle data sources, so it’s timely that we announce our beta refresh for our ADO.NET Entity Framework support for Oracle. As you’re probably aware, we announced our beta a few weeks back and we are delighted to announce today the immediate availability [...]
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In this two-part podcast Rob Steward discusses what to look for in a highly effective database driver. Part 1, which runs 3:49, focuses on ODBC, while Part 2 will concentrate on JDBC.
Click on the following link to listen to the podcast: http://dataaccesshandbook.com/media/Rob9.mp3
Rob Steward:
Well of course I’ve spent my career developing, producing database drivers of all [...]
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Announcing a significant update to our Oracle provider from Connect for ADO.NET!
We have enabled the use of the Microsoft® Entity Framework with Oracle data sources, supporting a wide range of Oracle versions. In this beta release, we fully support EDM schema generation, and of course full support for LINQ and Entity SQL statements issued Entities-enabled [...]
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In this podcast, Gregg discusses architectural considerations for zIIP exploitation. The podcast runs for 2:31.
To listen to the podcast, please click on the following link: http://blogs.datadirect.com/media/GreggWillhoit_BestPracticeszIIPExploitation_1.mp3
Podcast text:
What are some of the best practices for zIIP exploitation?
Gregg Willhoit:
Some of the best practices for zIIP exploitation begin with the actual philosophical approach to exploiting the zIIP. And [...]
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In this podcast Rob Steward explains who The Data Access Handbook was written for, and what benefits they will get out of its content.The podcast runs for 3:00.
You can listen to the podcast by clicking on the following link: http://dataaccesshandbook.com/media/Rob7.mp3
From the Podcast:
Why would the development audience and the database architect be interested in The [...]
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