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March #SQLChat Wrap-Up

Our March #SQLChat took place Wednesday, March 9 at 11 AM CT. This Twitter Chat was hosted by both John Sterrett and Robert Vandervoort and was...

Analysis Services: Solving Hierarchy Errors of Uniqueness

by Thomas LeBlanc

Multidimensional Cubes provide speed when it comes to retrieving aggregations that are important to business decisions. Being able to slice or group...

Thinking Strategically about SQL Server on Linux

by Vicky Harp

People all over the database world were in for a stunner this week when Microsoft announced that they will be supporting SQL Server installations...

New Query Analysis Features in Monyog

by whateverTJ

While looking to optimize your MySQL, you are needing to spot slow/bad queries at a glance and get deep insights about them with ease. The latest...

March #SQLChat – “DBAs Role in Data Modeling”

by Former Member

We are excited to welcome the data modeling audience into IDERA! And to prove it, we are hosting a #SQLChat! IDERA’s next Twitter Chat will be held...

February #SQLChat Wrap-Up

by Former Member

IDERA hosted its 8th Twitter Chat on Wednesday, February 17th at 11 AM CT with Mike Fal, Senior Database Administrator for Xero. Questions focused...

RAD Studio setting the vcl application icon.

by Craig Chapman

I recently received a question from one of my customers, asking how to set the icon for an application (in this case a VCL application). This is...

SQL Family: The Wonder Years

by Monica Rathbun

Last week, Bill Wolf aka @SQLWareWolf and I somehow got onto the topic of High School pictures. So in jest, I decided to post mine and hash tagged...

A 2016 future so bright you gotta wear shades?

by Robert Anderson

If you are a DBA or developer working around Microsoft SQL Server, you have heard lots about SQL Server 2016. (If not, you might be stuck in a...

5 Things You Can Do in SQL Diagnostic Manager That You May Not Know

by SandiW

There is a library of ‘how-to’ videos created for SQL Diagnostic Manager showcasing how to perform certain tasks and how to troubleshoot specific...

February #SQLChat – “Automating Your Environment”

by Former Member

It’s that time again! IDERA’s next Twitter Chat will be held on Wednesday, February 17 from 11 AM to 12 PM (CST). This chat will revolve around...

Embarcadero and the Object/Relational Mismatch – by Robin Bloor

by Joy Ruff

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...