It’s interesting to note how often we hear someone say, “Well, I’m using Hibernate, so I don’t really care about JDBC.” In fact, many think they don’t even need a JDBC driver at all, not realizing that the driver operates under Hibernate. Hibernate has a lot of benefits – it is flexible, and does a [...]

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Suppose you’ve been tasked with tracking down the memory usage of your application you’ve written with Hibernate. You’ve traced and tuned, and you think you should be able to squeeze more out of your database drivers. For this specific example we’ll say that we need to tune parameter bindings. In order to more accurately control [...]

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In this podcast, Rob Steward explains what the future holds for database connectivity. The podcast runs for 3:51. To listen to the podcast, please click on the following link: http://dataaccesshandbook.com/media/Rob5.mp3 Podcast text: What do you see in the future in database connectivity? Rob Steward: Well I think the future is still standards based. We talk [...]

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