Ok, we have some upcoming Design Previews and Architect Tutorials where we sit down with our customers and talk about the latest and greatest technologies in the data access arena. Think ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, SOA, Oracle, SQLServer, DB2, the entire gambit of data access (it's really fun). If you're...

Interested in hearing about SOA, data services and data access layers? Want to hear about how SOA, XQuery, SDO and Data services all fit together?

Why not joining us for some interactive sessions at our Architect Tutorial or...

The LINQ for Java question hit another milestone last week with the arrival of Quaere, although it remains to be seen whether this milestone is significant or not. We've certainly registered some...

John Radko of GXS had an interesting blog entry about SOA versus ESB - Conflict or Collaboration where he talks about whether ESB and SOA should always be put together.  Since SOA is an...

Another event in our series of ADO.NET online webinars:

Did you start developing your application using the ADO.NET providers supplied by your database vendor? Are you experiencing reliability or performance and scalability issues in your production environment? Are you frustrated by...

Last month in, XQJ Part III - Executing queries, we showed through some simple examples how to bind a value to an external variable declared in your query. In this post of the...

With the introduction of the

Although the format is different, the OpenDocument Format is conceptually similar, a bunch of XML files packaged in a ZIP.

How can you query the XML files inside the .docx file? After all it’s fairly simple with with...

Ok, due to popular demand we have a new MySQL JDBC driver offering in our new service pack for 3.7 we released yesterday. I'm not in marketing (and I don't want to sound like I am), but from a technical perspective it is really cool. Go download it and play with...

I've been playing around with JLINQ some more (post on that next week I hope) and in the midst I was referred to a really nice open source Eclipse plugin, QuantumDB.

I installed it and have to say that those guys really know what they're doing. I plugged in our JDBC drivers and was off and...