Delphi on Raspberry Pi

[Part 1] [Part 2] Part 1 The Raspberry Pi is an example of a single board computer. These low-cost hobby or project computers are a prime staple of the Internet of Things. More powerful than an Arduino, but not a full desktop. They often have limited or specialized...

May the 4th Be With You!

May the 4th Be With You!

Do. Or do not. There is no try. May the 4th is National Star Wars Day and IDERA is excited to celebrate. Keep your database universe Safe with the Force. With IDERA’s SQL Safe Backup, you can automate backups across all your SQL Servers and recover data from...

Attend our Virtual Conference to Win Big!

Attend our Virtual Conference to Win Big!

Be a part of history and attend IDERA’s first Virtual Conference! IDERA Live is our first Virtual Conference designed to educate and inform users of any level in a fun, engaging atmosphere. Join some of the industry’s top speakers to guide you through...

FireDAC and Microsoft Azure SQL Database

I've started to get requests to use FireDAC with Cloud Databases, like SQL Azure.  The question whether or not to put your business data in the cloud is getting easier and easier these days and a lot of that is thanks to Microsoft's investment in...

The best problem is no problem.

Many DBAs begin Oracle tuning by focusing on the slow SQL statements.  Time to tune is often made only when there is an issue.  We believe that there is economic justification, a rational business decision, to make Oracle optimization a regular practice of...

Oracle Performance Tuning Practice

Transaction performance is business performance.  SQL statement execution is the foundation of transaction performance.  Business performance has an economic effect.  It justifies time and budget.  It may just help your organization thrive in the globally competitive...

Triangle of Oracle Optimization Success

Any change carries risk and reward.  Every change has a price to implement.  Adding a hint to a SQL statement is less expensive than a server upgrade or purchasing solid state storage.  This diagram attempts to convey these factors in a picture.

Oracle Optimization, Proactive Oracle Tuning

Many DBAs begin Oracle tuning by focusing on the slow SQL statements.  Time to tune is often made only when there is an issue.  We believe that there is economic justification, a rational business decision, to make Oracle optimization a regular practice of the DBA...

Keep Threading in Mind

Keep Threading in Mind

In my interview with Martin he talked a lot about the importance of performance, which is one of the reasons he uses Delphi for his real-time lighting control systems. He said something along the lines that if you are not programming with threading in mind then you...

The Niagara Falls Lighting Episode

The Niagara Falls Lighting Episode

This episode is extra special in that it include a case study of the software behind the lights for Niagara Falls. Nick and I spoke with Martin Searancke of Dream Solutions, Ltd. in New Zealand, who is the architect of the Light Factory software used by the...

New in 10.2: MariaDB Support

One of the biggest new RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo database features is support for MariaDB open-source relational database. MariaDB is one of the most popular open-source SQL databases. It is a fork from MySQL database, after it has been acquired by Oracle, the original...

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