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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 Multi-Tier Architecture - Using RAD Server and REST Services. Create high performance, scalable applications by adopting a...
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 administration. It is made up of a REST server module, a desktop client, and a cross platform mobile client. The template...

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 ago has evolved into a mainstream "must-have” for the SQL Server community. A SQL Server health check is, in...

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 for a New Economy". While there are many research reports one can find on DevOps, this one is notable because it...
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 growth of Hybrid Cloud architectures. Hybrid Cloud architectures combine on premise and cloud deployed resources, in...
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 at most companies, the methods for doing these can differ. Whether using a scripted solution or a maintenance plan, each...
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 by including the FireMonkey (FMX) Framework for developing Cross-Platform Apps into all Professional editions. These are...
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 pattern when doing web development to give the user 20 results for example and then the ability to move to the next page. If...
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 recent articles that have appeared in the C++ community. To stay up to date on what's happening with ISO C++ you should...
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 database. For example if you want to publish the results of a query to a Google Sheet (which I find incredibly useful) then it...
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, DB2, Sybase, and Oracle which use the Structured Query Language (SQL) language. In fact, relational databases and SQL have...
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 vulnerabilities with SQL Server configurations and access, establishes security policies and baselines and alerts if there are...
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 history as a popular language used to create Operating Systems, drivers, gaming engines and so much more. It expanded the C...
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 for helping the community and sharing your knowledge? Then apply today! ACE Applications are open until October 1, 2018....
Secrets Of FireDac: Last Inserted Auto Generated Id And Enterprise Connectors
A common pattern when inserting data into a database table which has an auto increment field set on it is to use an SQL query to select the last inserted ID of the newly created record. Once you use your TFDQuery to run your INSERT query you can run this second query...
Top SQL Server Backup mistakes and how to avoid them
Backing up SQL Server databases is one of the most critical tasks that database administrators perform in their SQL Server environments every day. The backup process is so essential that it usually requires distinct processes, checklists, and multiple database...
Building Blocks for Visualizing Business Intelligence using Aqua Data Studio
When providing analytic reports to Senior Management, there are many approaches that can be taken to create these necessary building blocks for Business Intelligence. Before we show you suggested building blocks, let’s break down the terminology. The term Business...
Introducing FireMonkey Stencils
Last week, we released the FMX Stencils pack. The FireMonkey Stencils pack was designed to enhance communication between designers and developers who are building multi-device applications using the FireMonkey framework in Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio. One...
How to comprehensively manage SQL Servers on-premise and in the cloud
The volume, velocity, and variety of data is ever-increasing. At the same time, data is becoming ever more critical to the growth of organizations. Data is also becoming ever more difficult to manage across on-premise and cloud platforms. All these developments have...
std::out << "Happy 35th birthday, C++!"
C++ has a long history, beginning in 1979, with Cpre, which added classes to C. By 1980, it was C with Classes. And then in December of 1983, the term C++ was first used, suggested by Rick Mascitti. That's thirty-five years ago this year! Read more in...