As a member of The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), I am really excited about DataDirect's growing portfolio of data connectivity solutions against data warehouses.  One of my favorite engagements is with a data warehousing group looking for superior ODBC/JDBC connectivity solutions for their...

The wedding tradition in the States is to have something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. And the data access geek in you is thinking: "Use the blue font on Putty to your Unix/Linux server to launch Progress DataDirect's new standards based bulk utilities and...

In my last post, I highlighted the reasons why you still need to think about your JDBC driver when using Hibernate. Here, we’ll dive further into the area of...

They're here! As I indicated in my last post, Progress DataDirect has some new product releases to...

Microsoft’s recently released Entity Framework 4 (EF4) is generating deserved buzz among the .NET community. It seems that people can’t wait to make the jump directly to EF4, even if they haven’t even touched EF1. The perception is that EF1 was not up to snuff when it came to important...

 

Last week, the majority of commentary of Sybase was all about SAP's push to expand into the burgeoning mobile market. The ASA product line has definitely made inroads which will give SAP an immediate leg up,, the real key to this new relationship is this: the business information...

Some recommended reading for those of you who are looking at what NHibernate 2.0 offers in comparison to Entity Framework 4.0. While it is a fairly subjective view point...