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Empowering Law Firms: How SQL Server and Idera Tools Safeguard Legal Data
How To Design a Great UI – Part 1
How do you design a user interface (UI) to be understandable and easy to interact with? In this series, I’ll give some thoughts on good design,...
Blogs on Embarcadero Community: Multi Tier Development and Enterprise SKU
I haven't blogged much here in September, because I wrote two blog posts on the Embarcadero community site (given they were more official blog posts...
Get the Competitive Edge with FireUI
The Market Today To stay relevant, be successful and reach users, mobile app developers need to develop multi-device apps. Looking at the latest...
Deep Delphi Discussions
Everyone knows Delphi is the best Rapid Application Development tool. Delphi, C++Builder, and RAD Studio set the standard that everyone else is...
IDERA Honored in DBTA’s “Big Data 50” List
We’re proud to announce that for the second straight year IDERA was named to the “Big Data 50” list published annually by...
October #SQLChat: Making the Most of Conferences – From Training to Networking
So you're attending a training conference next month. Maybe you're a first timer, maybe this is your 10th year. Making sure you...
Targeting iOS 12 with RAD Studio
Earlier this week, Apple released the new version of iOS, iOS 12. We’ve been testing iOS 12 with 10.2 Tokyo Release 3 and the 10.3 Carnival...
Mobile App Navigation with TTabControl
RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder offer many controls to help create native mobile apps with consistent appearances that behave naturally for each...
Attention Operational DBAs
Uptime Database Infrastructure Monitor triages large environments so that you can quickly determine what needs your immediate attention, Database...
Data Breaches Are Common – Are You Prepared?
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. In preparation for that, I thought I might take a moment to ponder some security issues...
The Simple 3-2-1 Rule for Backups
Earlier this month, one of Microsoft's Azure data centers encountered an outage that impacted customers worldwide. Microsoft recently...
Beyond RAD Studio Pro: Why Developers Choose Enterprise and Architect
RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder come in 3 different editions: Professional, Enterprise and Architect. Until recently we also sold some of the...
Fixing Database Performance Problems
(content originally posted by Bert Scalzo on 3/8/2017) There is no such thing as the perfect database. No matter how hard the DBA may try, something...
Prototyping: from Vision to UX Design
You have a great idea for an app, but how do you successfully get from idea to a well designed, functional app your users love? It starts with...
Make Your Apps Scalable and Web-Enabled
This blog post accompanies the webinar Make Your Apps Scalable and Web-Enabled - Leverage your Business Logic with a Fast Flexible...
Build Flexible and Robust Apps with a Multi-Tier Architecture
A Multi-Tier architecture separates the UI/Presentation, the application and business logic layer, the data access layers, and the database itself...
Offline Capable Cross Platform Delphi 10.2 FireMonkey Client Code For Android, iOS, macOS, And Windows
The RAD Server Field Service Template provides an end to end field service application template for routing appointments, managing parts, and user...
Five reasons SQL Server health checks are life savers
SQL Server health checks have garnered a great deal of notoriety over the last five years. What was initially a niche offering more than ten years...
How can DevOps help database teams improve software delivery?
DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) published a detailed report on the state of DevOps entitled "Accelerate: State of DevOps 2018: Strategies...
Amazon and VMware accelerate Hybrid Cloud partnership
While it is true that “Winter’s Coming,” the more sizable wave of impact rolling over data center management is the continuing...
September #SQLChat: Automation in SQL Server – How to Work Only 40 Hours a Week
Automation in SQL Server - the one thing that can salvage the sanity of the DBA. While automating backups and maintenance processes is common place...
General Manager Update for September 2018
As we start September, I want to provide some important updates around products and product packaging. Earlier in the year, we simplified our SKUs...
Secrets of FireDAC: Pagination With Grids And LiveBindings
If you want to display only a range of results from a recordset you can using paging (otherwise known as pagination) to do so. It is a common...
Articles and News from the C++ community
To prepare for the appearance of C++17 support in the "Carnival" release of C++Builder (RAD Studio August 2018 Roadmap), here are some...
API Limits with #FDEC
The FireDAC Enterprise Connectors (#FDEC) by CData and Embarcadero make it really easy to work with various APIs just like you would any SQL...
What is NoSQL and Why Should I Care?
Many database professionals have historically worked with traditional relational database management systems (DBMS) such as Microsoft SQL Server,...
Announcing the GA Release of SQL Secure 3.2
We are excited to announce the release of SQL Secure 3.2. SQL Secure is an auditing and security tool for SQL Servers. It helps identifies...
Happy 35 years to C++
Choosing a programming language to learn and utilize is an extremely personal choice and not one that developers take lightly. C++ has a long...
Apply to the IDERA ACE Program Today!
There’s only a few weeks left to apply to the IDERA ACE program! The search has begun for the 2018 - 2019 IDERA ACEs. Do you have a passion...
8-Weeks Delphi Community Edition Bootcamp Starts Next Week
Delphi CE Bootcamp is an 8 week FREE instructional lecture covering many different areas of Delphi development and focused on new developers as well...