Author: 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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...
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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... -
A Brief History of Java and JDBC
While working on some JDBC training materials I decided to stress the importance of Java and JDBC on the computing industry. Having just come from this year’s JavaOne, I decided to do a short history of Java presentation to get everyone on the same page and level set the room.
I started with...
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JavaOne ‘09: A Data Geek’s Recap
I’ve had a few days to come off of the Geek High that one gets when completely immersed in a tech conference and thought I would write my recap and highlights. First, the opening keynote was delivered by Jonathan Schwartz, and the...
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See you at the JDBC BoF at JavaOne 2009!
Wondering what the next version of the JDBC specification will look like? What about that issue you logged; will it be fixed? What is JDBC 4.1 going to have in terms of new functionality? Join the JDBC Expert Group (of which I’m proud to be a member) as we cover these topics Tuesday (tomorrow) night...
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