The Embarcadero deal seems, from my outsider’s point of view, to be a great deal for CodeGear and for Embarcadero. There are so many different ways that the two companies’ products can work together that it just makes a great deal of sense to me. It’s less clear to me how it makes sense […]
OK, I’m not trying to steal Joe White’s thunder here on Delphi macros, but when I plugged Joe’s series, I mentioned that I use Delphi macros for converting SQL created in a query analysis tool into Delphi constants, and commenter Jack asked for more details on this. I thought it would make a better […]
Here’s yet another guy with more good ideas on how to version database metadata changes. Unfortunately, the ideal method of database metadata versioning remains to be discovered. The ideas discussed in K. Scott Allen’s series are good from a version control point of view, but they will have serious, negative performance implications in […]
Cary Jensen gave a presentation at today’s CodeRage on versioning database metadata. In it, he showed a tool he had written which […]
Someone asked in the newsgroups for a comparison between InterBase and Blackfish SQL. So off the top of my head:
Feature
Blackfish SQL
InterBase
Connectivity
ADO.NET 2.0, JDBC, dbExpress
ADO.NET 1.1 and 2.0, JDBC (type 4), dbExpress, ODBC, native API, embedded SQL, OLE-DB via third parties
Data recovery features
Incremental backup with failover on Java platform only. Crash recovery via transaction log on […]
Recently, I was asked to look at a bug in our software where editing a certain record with a certain customers database took far too long — an update which should have taken less than a second took two hours to complete.
Wired has a lengthy and good story about the extensive, high-tech, and ultimately unsuccessful search for database pioneer Jim Gray, who disappeared on his 40′ sailboat off the coast of California earlier this year.
In lazy languages such as Haskell, it can be difficult-to-impossible to predict the order in which certain statements will execute. That’s fine, since in a purely functional language the order of execution doesn’t matter, but people who are used to imperative languages such as Delphi sometimes find the concept difficult to get their heads around.
But there’s a very common lazy language which I’d guess just about everyone reading this blog already knows, namely […]
This coming Friday I’ll be presenting Internationalizing InterBase: Character Sets, Collations, and Encodings at CodeGear’s virtual conference, CodeRage[…]
Here’s a very detailed tutorial on the basics of writing an application which uses InterBase, WinForms, and Turbo Delphi for .NET.