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Embarcadero and the Object/Relational Mismatch – by Robin Bloor

The introduction of object-oriented (OO) programming languages provoked an unfortunate schism in the world of software development. Relational...

January #SQLChat Wrap-Up

by Liz Stephens

A new year means new beginnings! And, what a better way to celebrate than with a Twitter Chat centered around SQL Server and starting a new job....

Adding a style selector to your application

by Sarina DuPont

With RAD Studio 10 Seattle, we provide built-in default styles for iOS, Android, Windows and Mac. Additional styles can be found in the Styles...

Cost Threshold and Max Degree of Parallelism

by Thomas LeBlanc

SQL Server has many options for configuring a database system. Most do not become apparent until some part of the system does not function...

National Rubber Ducky Day

by Liz Stephens

What does IDERA love as much as our customers? Rubber Ducks! National Rubber Ducky Day is Wednesday, January 13. To help celebrate this holiday we...

Cool new FMX components by Graham Murt @kscomponents

by DavidI

Some cool new FireMonkey components, ksComponents (Kernow Software FMX components), created by Graham Murt, are available on GitHub. You'll find the...

Using FireDAC Unidirectional property for fast, low memory selection set processing

by DavidI

I often do large Oracle database queries using FireDAC to analyze registration data about our products and customers. Most of the time I am only...

Configuring Query Monitoring in SQL Diagnostic Manager 10.0

by Vicky Harp

The SQL Diagnostic Manager Query Monitor is a powerful feature that has the capability of greatly reducing the time that it takes to identify...

How to best load an image from a URL using TWebBrowser when targeting multiple devices

by Sarina DuPont

In this snippet, I placed a TWebBrowser control onto my FireMonkey form and aligned it to the client. I then set up the following...

Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Vulnerabilities Addressed

by Former Member

Uptime Infrastructure Monitor (Uptime IM) Vulnerabilities Addressed CERT Coordination Center (cert.org) published their latest Uptime Infrastructure...

Change dproj file and product version

by Rubén Pozo

If you have a project with automatic builds is posible that you want change the File/Product version of the file. Using the code below you can...

Skill Sprint: Unlocking the Windows Runtime (WinRT) and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) on Windows 10

by Marleon

What is the Windows Runtime (WinRT)? Introduced in Windows 8 Default program interface Object Oriented API Native Code API Does not replace...

Migrating legacy C++ Builder Apps to C++ Builder 10 Seattle

by Al Mannarino

Migration Considerations - Unicode For the most part, your older C++ Builder source code and forms will import, compile, link and execute in...

ER/Studio Model Repository Database Sizing Guide for IBM DB2

by Anil M

Howdy! In this final installment, I will be covering on how to ensure optimum model repository performance for IBM DB2. [Update Statistics]...

Windows and beyond. Connecting a Windows application with an Android service

by Luis Navarro

I’ve always loved developing Windows applications using Delphi and RAD Studio. But it’s getting ever more exciting with the latest releases as...

Join us in Welcoming Embarcadero’s Customers and Partners

by Liz Stephens

We recently announced our acquisition of Embarcadero Technologies. This week, IDERA CEO Randy Jacops sent a letter to Embarcadero’s customers and...

ER/Studio Database Sizing Guide – Best Practices

by Anil M

ER/Studio Database Sizing Guide - Best Practices Howdy! In this blog post, let us shed some light on how to better leverage Capacity planning and...

New Delphi Seattle MongoDB Sample

by Jim McKeeth

I created some more Delphi 10 Seattle samples to show off MongoDB and FireDAC functionality: LocalSQL, Indexing & Geospatial. The first one...

The Data Warehouse of the Future Using Microsoft SQL Server

by Liz Stephens

The data landscape has changed considerably since Kimball first proposed the dimensional approach to building a data warehouse schema. Over the last...