Jesse Davis

Jesse Davis

As Senior Director of Research & Development, Jesse is responsible for the daily operations, product development initiatives and forward looking research for Progress DataDirect. Jesse has spent nearly 20 years creating enterprise data products and has served as an expert on several industry standards including JDBC, J2EE, DRDA and OData. Jesse holds a bachelor of science degree in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State university.

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Security & Single Sign-on – You Can Have Both!
Security is one of those critical functions that as developers and programmers, we just hope will seamlessly work in the background. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. I was talking to...
Jesse Davis September 13, 2010
Triple Your Virtualized Application Performance With One Simple Step
How’s your performance? No, it’s not a personal question, it’s the most common question that we get from customers about our products. “Sure, you have lots of great features,” they’ll say. “But how’s your performance?” Great question! I have always loved to answer this one but I especially...
Jesse Davis August 20, 2010
Think Hibernate Means You Don’t Have to Worry about Your JDBC Driver? Think Again.
It’s interesting to note how often we hear someone say, “Well, I’m using Hibernate, so I don’t really care about JDBC.” In fact, many think they don’t even need a JDBC driver at all, not realizing that the driver operates under Hibernate. Hibernate has a lot of benefits – it is flexible, and does a...
Jesse Davis August 04, 2010
What’s next for JDBC?
When I went through and made the “A Brief History of Java and JDBC” movie, I spent a lot of time thinking about the current and future state of Java. This made me realize how much Java has had to change since its...
Jesse Davis February 16, 2010
The Evolution and Future of JDBC In the Enterprise

I recently sat down with the guys over at DZone to talk about what’s been going on in JDBC, and what lies in store for the future as well as the plans to get there. Talking about the future of technologies is always fun, but JDBC? I’m sure...

Jesse Davis September 04, 2009
Easily Move Large Amounts of data with Bulk Load!
Many companies today are moving mountains of data – some are moving them into data warehouses to run reports, moving for duplication/archival, and more often than not, the design of these systems is accidental. Traditionally there has been no standards based way for moving these large amounts of data...
Jesse Davis August 07, 2009
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