Designing App Navigation with TMultiView

Designing App Navigation with TMultiView

In RAD Studio XE7, we introduced a new smart menu component called TMultiView. With TMultiView, it is really easy to create app navigation that automatically adjusts itself depending on form factor, orientation and target platform using our new behavior services....

Preparing for Data Centric Interviews by Pinal Dave

Preparing for Data Centric Interviews by Pinal Dave

These days the fundamentals of taking an interview have not changed much. The more experienced you are, the greater the likelihood of getting into multiple rounds of interviews. If you have been in the industry for close to a decade, when do you start preparing for...

Performance Improvements with SQL Server 2014

Whenever there is new model of any vehicle launched in the market, it is expected it should have some enhancements or new features which would make it superior from previous model. If the features are appealing, generally customers are positive and forthcoming to pay...

Rapid SQL Code Templates by Dan Hotka

Rapid SQL Code Templates by Dan Hotka

This is part of a series of guest posts by Dan Hotka. Hi! This week I want to show how Rapid SQL can improve your coding productivity and technique by using its templates. A template saves me from having to look up the exact syntax. To use, simply put your cursor on...

What Are SQL Elements Health Checks?

What Are SQL Elements Health Checks?

I have recently received a number of questions regarding Health Checks in SQL Elements, what are they, how often do they run, and what do I do with them? Health checks are a great way to get a holistic view of the performance, availability and other critical issues on...

New Free Tool – SQL Update Statistics is available now!

New Free Tool – SQL Update Statistics is available now!

Table statistics maintenance is an important part of overall SQL Server administration. DBAs understand a common cause of query performance problems come from rapidly changing data. By design, databases have an option to auto update statistics, but when data is...

Bluetooth LE support in RAD Studio XE7

Bluetooth LE support in RAD Studio XE7

RAD Studio XE7's integrated wireless support (Bluetooth and Wifi) works with thousands of consumer and industry specific devices. RAD Studio's approach makes it easy to integrate virtually any device into the app user experience, and even support multiple...

Metadata Overview, by Ron Huizenga

What is Metadata? The term “Metadata” arises frequently when discussing Data Architecture.  In short, it is “data about data.”  However, interpretation can be rather ambiguous, since it is used in different contexts.  The most common context is known as...

Monitoring Disk Queue Length

Monitoring Disk Queue Length

Recently, I wrote a blog post about performance counters and why the threshold depends (Performance Counters: Why It Depends). In this post, I talked about why the counter Disk Queue Length is no longer a valid counter to use. Today, I want to elaborate on that and...

Executing Explain Plans Using Rapid SQL by Dan Hotka

Executing Explain Plans Using Rapid SQL by Dan Hotka

This is a guest post from Dan Hotka, Oracle ACE Director. Learn more at his webinar Explain Plan Tips and Techniques. Hi! My name is Dan Hotka. I am an Oracle ACE Director. One of my many charters with this group is to help spread the good word and technical knowledge...

SQL Heatmap is here – Idera’s newest free tool

SQL Heatmap is here – Idera’s newest free tool

Idera strives to bring helpful tools to the market for DBAs and Developers to complete daily tasks and a variety of these are free. Today we announce our latest free tool, SQL Heat Map, which displays SQL Server capacity utilization in one simple snapshot view. A...

Seven Deadly Sins of Database Design

If you don’t get the data right, nothing else matters. However, the business focus on applications often overshadows the priority for a well-organized database design. Addressing some simple data modeling and design fundamentals can put you on the right path. Here are...