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Want more…Speed

Quintus Arrius, in the movie Ben Hur, implores the rowers to give him "Battle speed!… Attack speed!… Ramming speed!"  On October 15, 1997, the rocket powered car, ThrustSSC, driven by Andy Green, set a world land speed record of 763 mph. ThrustSSC is the first car to break the sound barrier on land. The qote, "I feel [...]

Want more…Power

I went to visit Mount St. Helens yesterday. Unfortunately, it was raining and we couldn’t see the volcano.  We stopped at the Johnston Ridge Observatory (JRO), named for David A. Johnston.  Johnston was a USGS volcanologist who was on duty at the ridge the day Mount St. Helens exploded on May 18, 1980.  "Vancouver! Vancouver! This [...]

Join us for DataRage 2 — May 25-27, 2010!

What’s DataRage?
DataRage is three days of 100% online technical sessions you can attend from wherever you like to log in. It’s bringing top industry speakers, technologists, and industry practitioners to present on a wide variety of database-related topics, a raging confluence of conveniently-delivered information you can’t get anywhere else. And it’s free!
DataRage is designed for [...]

My Webinar(s) May 5 - Finding and Fixing performance problems in database-driven applications

Alarm SMS messages and emails are being sent by the performance monitoring system to the production DBA team and the development team alerting everyone that the latest release of a critical business application and the underlying databases are grinding to a halt. The developers, QA team, and DBAs all point fingers at each other. The [...]

Less than one week until CodeRage 4 starts - come join us

CodeRage 4, our deep dive technical virtual conference, starts next Tuesday.  More than 90 sessions covering the latest technologies included in Delphi 2010, C++Builder 2010 along with techncial sessions for Delphi Prism, InterBase, and our database tools.
When:  Tuesday to Friday, September 8-11
Where: Online - Register Today
Join in the sessions with the top speakers from inside [...]

Evaluating the Total Cost of Software Tools…

When looking to reduce costs an often overlooked area to consider is the overall costs for the tools needed to design, build, and run your databases and applications.
A new comparison report, entitled Reducing Total Cost of Ownership of Your Application Development and Database Tools”, provides straightforward guidelines for evaluating and comparing costs for database tools.
In this comparison report [...]

Using Embarcadero Optimization tools with MS SQL Server…

I received an email from a community member asking how to set up a datasource for our database optimization tools and Java optimization tools (DB Optimizer and J Optimizer) to connect to Microsoft SQL Server.
"From: Jacques (in Australia) - Hi David, I have installed the Optimization tools. I cannot add a datasource. I am using DBArtisan [...]

Software + Database Archeology in Moscow

Yesterday, in Moscow, I presented (for the first time) our solution seminar titled "Software + Database Archeology" using Delphi 2009, our database tools, and some third party tools. Thank you to the developers in Moscow for being the first field test viewers.
To develop the seminar (with the help of others inside Embarcadero, thanks team), we started [...]

Embarcadero Java and Database Optimization solutions press coverage…

We recently announced new application development and database tuning and performance tools.  We are now shipping JOptimizer for Java and DB Optimizer for multiple databases.  These tools help you tune Java and SQL code.  Several magazines and web sites covered the announcement.  You can find the links below.
This week we are also having a free webinar, "Code [...]

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