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C++Builder XE6 multi-tier database app with FireDAC JSON Reflection
Welcome to The C++ Mobile Day webinar! Right now I'm listening to David I explaining basics of building native mobile apps for Android and iOS from the same C++ codebase with C++Builder XE6. In less than three hours there will be my, prerecorded session...
Achieve Better Automation with Idera’s SQL Diagnostic Manager
A seasoned SQL Server DBA has many skills, expertise and knowledge. Unfortunately, this also means that his/her time is always on demand by many different groups within the IT organization. Maximizing your productivity and efficiency, especially on many of those pesky...
Best Practices for Deployment of SQL Compliance Manager
So maybe you downloaded a trial of SQL Compliance Manager and want to play around with it. Or perhaps you already purchased licenses and want to deploy and setup the tool on your SQL Servers. Either way you can always use some help to really configure the product the...
AWS cost saving tip: Delete unused EBS volumes
Organizing EBS volumes and deleting detached volumes on a regular basis to can help decrease AWS spend. See how easy it is to identify, tag, snapshot, detach, and delete those unused EBS volumes. Identify It is important to identify if your EBS volumes are currently...
Solaris 10 Agent Issue
Hi, in troubleshooting an agent issue, I’m seeing the following: Â Â #su – nobody #telnet localhost 9998 Trying 127.0.0.1… Connected to localhost. Escape character is ‘^]’. uptimeagent: can’t open start directory: Permission...

Adding user account creation to your BaaS enabled apps
In RAD Studio XE6, we introduced our BaaS (Backend as a Service) support. This includes components for both Kinvey and Parse. Part of our component pack is the TBackendUsers component which is designed to be hooked into either the ParseProvider or KinveyProvider...
Counter calculations in SQL Diagnostic Manager
Probably the three most common questions I get about counters in SQL Diagnostic Manager are: “How can I prevent alerting on temporary noise values?”“How does collecting once every 6 minutes give enough data for alerting?”and, the big one“Why is SQLdm showing me...
Using Custom Endpoints to create a BaaS enabled Desktop application for sending notifications to your mobile apps
I previously wrote a blog post on how to send notifications via our BaaS (Backend as a Service) support in Delphi to your mobile devices on iOS and Android. This blog post assumes that you followed the steps in my previous blog post and in the referenced docwiki...
Most Popular FAQs for SQL Doctor
SQL Doctor is one of the most popular products in the Idera portfolio and as such we get a variety of questions from users on how it works, where do the recommendations come from, etc. We picked out some of the more common questions that have been asked that perhaps...
Example of using JavaScript for Google maps in the Delphi XE6
One of the innovations in XE6, it's a method EvaluateJavaScript in the component TWebBrowser. This method allowing execute JavaScript on the loaded page and add interactivity to our applications. On the site developers.google.com contains many examples of...
Remote push notifications on Android with RAD Studio XE6
In RAD Studio XE6, we introduced support for remote push notifications with our BaaS (Backend as a Service) integration. We include components for Kinvey and Parse, two popular BaaS providers, right out of the box. Our BAAS framework in RAD Studio XE6 is based on our...
New SQLyog and MONyog coming – please upgrade soon!
We are about to release upgrades to both SQLyog and MONyog with an important fix: linked libraries possibly vulnerable to the 'Heartbleed' OpenSSL bug have been upgraded to non-affected versions (the new MONyog release will have a few more fixes as well)....
Custom counter – deadlocks in the past X hours
In response to a couple of requests, here’s a custom counter that allows you to alert on the total number of deadlocks which happen in a timeframe. Set the value of @lookBackHours for the length of time you want to consider. One way to use this would be to set...
Delphi (C++Builder) Android Mobile Client DataSnap Server
Преамбула DataSnap – платформа создания многозвенных приложений. Её история достаточно продолжительна, начиная с совсем ранних версий Delphi. Роль и значимость этой технологии/платформы изменялась в течение эволюции Delphi/C++Builder/RAD Studio, но сейчас есть ряд...
Five tiny features of SQL Diagnostic Manager you may not know about
SQL Diagnostic Manager has been around for a long time, and many of you have been using it for years. For today’s topic I thought it might be fun to go over 5 tiny features of SQLdm that you may have missed – either because they’re hidden, or because they were added...
Idera SQL XEvent Profiler – a free tool for XEvent monitoring
The Extended Events technology added to SQL Server in SQL 2008 and expanded upon greatly in SQL 2012 is a powerful mechanism for monitoring activity in SQL Server. It has huge implications for tools like SQL Diagnostic Manager, which switched over to XEvent technology...
Lazy Form Creation Design Pattern
One of the most important things about any application, and especially mobile apps, is short start-up time. End user does not like to wait for too long for an app to start. In some cases, if the start-up time is excessively long a mobile app may not be accepted into...
Deep Dive: SQL Diagnostic Manager Availability Checks
One of the frequent questions I get about SQL Diagnostic Manager pertains to one of the most fundamental features of the product – exactly how is server downtime detected? This is usually answered with relatively straightforward explanations about running test queries...
Some suggestions
Hi, I think it may be useful in SQL Defrag: 1. To see index script when I see the fragmentation of this index. Now I need to use another tool to do it. 2. Databases refresh (button?) 3. Now SQL Defrag is SDI, but sometimes I need to see the state of 2 databases in the...
Creating an InterBase database on the fly with FireDAC
Recently I have been creating a number of applications using InterBase on iOS and Android using FireDAC components to talk to the database. One route to achieving this is by create the database file and table structure either via iSQL or using IBConsole GUI first...