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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 problems using the tool. Below are a handful of quick 3 minute videos to show you some examples of what you can do within...
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 automating your database environment. Questions will focus on what tasks and tools people commonly automate, techniques...
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 databases dominated the database world and Entity Relationship (ER) modeling quickly dominated database design. This...
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. IDERA hosted its 7th Twitter Chat on Wednesday, January 20th at 11 AM CST with Pinal Dave, technology enthusiast and...
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 directory installed with the product, and in the premium styles bonus pack. Adding a style selector to your application...
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 “properly”. Parallelism is one of these settings. You will see Waits for Parallelism and blocking if this setting is not...
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 are sending you our newest IDERA duck for free! All you have to do is post a picture of your favorite IDERA duck, tag us...
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 source code for TksListView, TksFormTransition, TksTableView,TksSlideMenu, TksSegmentButtons and TksChatView. Readme...
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 processing through millions of rows to create a report or chart. One of the FDQuery properties that I forget to set True is...
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 problem queries on a monitored server. However, with that power comes some risk of performance degradation. In this post...
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 OnFormCreate event to load a web image into the browser control. I also restricted the image size to the screen dimensions of the...
Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Vulnerabilities Addressed
Uptime Infrastructure Monitor (Uptime IM) Vulnerabilities Addressed CERT Coordination Center (cert.org) published their latest Uptime Infrastructure Monitor vulnerability report on Dec 8 2015: www.kb.cert.org/.../377260 Uptime IM worked closely with CERT during their...
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 create a console application for to modify these values easily. program ChangeVersion; {$APPTYPE CONSOLE} {$R *.res} uses...
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 Win32 Not part of .NET Not managed code Not a tablet version of Windows (WindowsRT) Only way to access some features of...
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 current C++ Builder 10 Seattle, but you may need to make Unicode changes, and re-build 3rd party libraries, if these...
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] RUNSTATS command Updates statistics in the system catalog about the characteristics of a table and/or associated indexes,...
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 it's possible to go beyond Windows and create a new ecosystem that includes the capabilities of the mobile apps, IoT...
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 partners to explain the move and touch on what the future holds for Embarcadero. We’re sure this is of interest to IDERA’s...
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 Database Sizing for ER/Studio's Repository Database. I will be covering each individual Database Platform per blog...
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 queries some data from MongoDB allowing you to specify the match, sort and projection, then it stores the results in a...