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Empowering Law Firms: How SQL Server and Idera Tools Safeguard Legal Data
Thinking Strategically about SQL Server on Linux
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
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”
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
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.
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
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?
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
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”
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
The introduction of object-oriented (OO) programming languages provoked an unfortunate schism in the world of software development. Relational...
January #SQLChat Wrap-Up
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Uptime Infrastructure Monitor (Uptime IM) Vulnerabilities Addressed CERT Coordination Center (cert.org) published their latest Uptime Infrastructure...
Change dproj file and product version
If you have a project with automatic builds is posible that you want change the File/Product version of the file. Using the code below you can...
Skill Sprint: Unlocking the Windows Runtime (WinRT) and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) on Windows 10
What is the Windows Runtime (WinRT)? Introduced in Windows 8 Default program interface Object Oriented API Native Code API Does not replace...
Migrating legacy C++ Builder Apps to C++ Builder 10 Seattle
Migration Considerations - Unicode For the most part, your older C++ Builder source code and forms will import, compile, link and execute in...
ER/Studio Model Repository Database Sizing Guide for IBM DB2
Howdy! In this final installment, I will be covering on how to ensure optimum model repository performance for IBM DB2. [Update Statistics]...
Windows and beyond. Connecting a Windows application with an Android service
I’ve always loved developing Windows applications using Delphi and RAD Studio. But it’s getting ever more exciting with the latest releases as...
Join us in Welcoming Embarcadero’s Customers and Partners
We recently announced our acquisition of Embarcadero Technologies. This week, IDERA CEO Randy Jacops sent a letter to Embarcadero’s customers and...
ER/Studio Database Sizing Guide – Best Practices
ER/Studio Database Sizing Guide - Best Practices Howdy! In this blog post, let us shed some light on how to better leverage Capacity planning and...
New Delphi Seattle MongoDB Sample
I created some more Delphi 10 Seattle samples to show off MongoDB and FireDAC functionality: LocalSQL, Indexing & Geospatial. The first one...
The Data Warehouse of the Future Using Microsoft SQL Server
The data landscape has changed considerably since Kimball first proposed the dimensional approach to building a data warehouse schema. Over the last...
My Amazon Web Services Programming with Delphi CodeRageX session
In a moment my "Amazon Web Services with Delphi" CodeRage X session is starting. I'm very excited and the sessions so far were very...
CodeRage X Resources for C++ and Object Pascal Tracks
Full Video Replays Object Pascal Track On Demand C++ Track On Demand C++ Tracks Tuesday C++ Product Address Build a Push-Enabled...