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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If you’ve never seen the above clip from the cult classic This is Spinal Tap, take a minute to watch it. Since we first introduced the idea of JDBC Type 5 drivers to the Java community, one of the two main reactions to it has been: “Type 5 JDBC? That sounds a lot like ‘These [...]

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According to the feedback received on last month’s webinar How Type 4 JDBC Drivers Limit Modern Java Environments, the limitations that Jesse highlighted are widespread and in some cases, cause severe problems in production environments. Many of those that we heard from were eager to find an easy way to resolve their problems that did [...]

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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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Today in my series on performance tuning Progress DataDirect products, I’m going to shed some light on a few of the tuning options available in our Connect for JDBC driver for SQL Server. Performance Tuning Options The SQL Server JDBC driver offers a wealth of options and properties that can be tuned for performance. When [...]

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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 [...]

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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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