Tag: Oracle

Don’t Overlook the Importance of Middleware to Database Application Performance

In this podcast Rob Steward explains why architects, designers, programmers, or DBAs have overlooked the middleware to improve database performance, and why he wrote The Data Access Handbook to help educate the community on the middleware’s importance. The podcast runs for 2:42. To listen to the...

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Rob Steward April 14, 2009

Creating Open Office documents

Our previous post demonstrated how easy it is to create Microsoft Office documents with DataDirect XQuery. Today we'll go through the same exercise for Open Office...

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Marc Van Cappellen March 30, 2009

Creating Microsoft Office documents

I have my business data residing in a relational database, a set of EDI messages, or yet some other format and want to export it into Excel. Preferable in only a few lines of code. Without the requirement to have...

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Marc Van Cappellen March 01, 2009

Creating ZIP files

The latest version of the DataDirect Data Integration Suiteincludes the ability to create and update ZIP files, straight from within XQuery. Why would you want...

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Marc Van Cappellen February 11, 2009

The demise LINQ to SQL? Not quite...

Some might rightly consider this old news, however the LINQ to SQL death notices were brought back to the headlines by Redmond Developer News. See the link below for the full...

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Jonathan Bruce December 22, 2008