Next-Generation Object-Oriented Databases: An Interview with db4objects' Anat Gafni
Object-oriented databases complement relational databases in important ways, says Anat Gafni, VP of Engineering at db4objects, the company behind the... more »
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Hibernate: Understanding Lazy Fetching
When working with Hibernate, it is *critical* to understand lazy associations, as they can be your best friend, but if you don't treat them right,... more »
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Sun juggles love of code with need for cash
Ian Murdock, Sun vice president of developer and community marketing, and Marten Mickos, head of Sun's database group, used CommunityOne to outline... more »
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MySQL: Time Delayed Replication
I was cruising the MySQL Forge Worklog when I came across the idea of Time Delayed Replication. I had never considered the benefits of deliberately... more »
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How to Break a MySQL Left Join
Care must be taken when placing conditions on the results of the right-hand table of a LEFT JOIN because it could easily become a normal JOIN since... more »
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So long Borland.. it has been a true rollercoaster ride with lots of fun on the way!
What does the future bring for the sell of CodeGear to Embarcadero? My take on it.
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Designing databases for flexibility (II): Relationships
As mentioned in my previous post, the objective of this series of articles is to share some database design patterns that have helped me in the past... more »
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Embarcadero Buys CodeGear for $23M: New Life for JBuilder?
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Embarcadero Technologies, a privately held database tools vendor, today announced a definitive agreement to purchase Borland's CodeGear division for... more »
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MySQL Server is Open Source, even Backup extensions
As reported yesterday from CommunityOne: * MySQL Server is and will always remain fully functional and open source, * so will the MySQL... more »
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How To Use Triggers to Track Changes in MySQL
Setting constraints and rules in the database is better than writing special code to handle the same task since it will prevent another developer from... more »
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Hibernate Query Cache In-Depth Analysis
Apurba takes an in-depth look at the Hibernate Query Cache Implementation and some impacts of it on operations like Natural Key Lookup.
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Hibernate: Truly Understanding the Second-Level and Query Caches
Clear explanation of all levels of hibernate caching. It will help grails developers also.
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LINQ for Java
Would you like to see LINQ (Language INtegrated Queries) implemented for Java? This is an invitation to vote for it and to contribute.
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What can PostgreSQL learn from MySQL
There has been a lot of talk lately about PostgreSQL and what MySQL can learn from the PostgreSQL clan. We would like to look at the reverse of that.... more »
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The unholy legacy of databases
We had a split in storages and search, each part with it’s own Java interface (a component could implement both of course). This way we could have... more »
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Databases Make Bad Routers ...
Reports are circulating that Twitter is already dropping Ruby on Rails, and folks are getting worked up in all sorts of directions. Let's calm down... more »
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SQL Server 2005: Get full information about transaction locks
Sometimes we wish to know what locks are being held by the transaction. Also it would be great to know what SPID owns the transaction, on which... more »
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MySQL so busy becoming PostgreSQL it forgets its community
On the surface everything is looking smooth: MySQL distributes proprietary MySQL+InnoDB to those who wants to embed them in their proprietary... more »
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Rails and Scaling with Multiple Databases
We’ve run against multiple (five now) separate PostgreSQL servers for a long time now. To be clear, that’s five separate “databases” in the sense that... more »
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MagLev: Gemstone builds Ruby runtime based on Smalltalk VM
OODB vendor Gemstone works on a Ruby VM called MagLev. Working with Seaside's and DabbleDB's Avi Bryant, Gemstone bases the Ruby runtime on their... more »
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Java DB 10.4.1
The 10.4.1 version of Java DB, the world's most advanced Java database, has some really cool features -- asynchronous replication, table functions and... more »
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Choosing a database for your project
An analysis about choosing a database backend for an opensource project. The article looks at a key/value stores like Berkeley DB and GDBM and at... more »
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Designing a Data Access Layer for ASP.Net Applications
Get more from ADO.Net using DAL
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An introduction to LINQ for db4o
An article that explains and demonstrates the new LINQ implementation that comes with the open source object database "db4o".
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MySQL: Do you always need index on WHERE column?
I believe we wrote about this before, but this topic popups again and again. Today I've read opinion that if we have clause WHERE has_something=1 we... more »
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