Hibernate ORM can lead to inflexibility; Terracotta can help
But the thing I noticed is, there’s just no avoiding the fact that whatever your domain POJO’s are that need to be persisted, chances are good that... more »
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SQL - What are your favorite performance tricks?
When you have a query or stored procedure that needs performance tuning, what are some of the first things you try?
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Creating an ASP.NET Newsletter Application
A tutorial to create a newsletter application for your website. It allows users to subscribe and unsubscribe from the newsletter. A simple online... more »
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How to Fix MySQL Database (MyISAM / InnoDB)
So... your shiny MySQL database is no longer running and you want to fix it? You've come to the right place! I've assembled a list of 7 ways to... more »
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How and Why to Use Parameterized Queries
A parameterized query is a query in which placeholders are used for parameters and the parameter values are supplied at execution time. The most... more »
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Two improvements to your Capfiles
Capistrano tips from one of the few Capistrano masters.
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Using the New MySQL Query Profiler
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Create high-performing SQL code as well as assist in troubleshooting existing queries that aren't providing the response times you'd like.
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LINQ to TEXT and LINQ to CSV
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This post presents my current approach for dealing with text files using LINQ, and includes a function for splitting CSV lines.
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Where to go for Java DB Questions
While Java DB is Sun's distribution of Apache Derby, we do not maintain a separate users' forum for it outside of the Apache Derby users'... more »
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Introduction to NHibernate: What does NHibernate bring to the table
A short screencast introduction to NHibernate: In this episode we will talk about what does NHibernate bring to the table
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4GL Patterns
Why study patterns from 4GL applications? Writing 4GL applications yields a lot of productivity clues that may be applicable to programming at... more »
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Hibernate Sessions in Two Tier Rich Client Applications
An article about an aproach to hibernate session handling in two tier applications.
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10 Useful articles about Database design
This is a list of ten useful articles about database design which includes some tips and practical suggests to help you to design quickly databases... more »
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The first JBoss Cache 3.0.0 CR is now available
Manik is looking for feedback on the new features and performance characteristics, including: performance under load, performance in large clusters,... more »
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Pointers and Vectors and Lists, OH MY!
The two questions that I needed to solve were: 1. How do I store these collections of information? 2. How do I reference... more »
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JavaDB is a decent solution for dynamic configurations
Java, specially Java EE has had a decent hierarchy for dynamic lookups of the configuration properties (JNDI) as well for externalization of these... more »
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Database Programmer: The Quest for the Absolute
Today I am taking a huge detour from technical matters to lay out the philosophical groundwork behind this blog. The ideas presented today lie beneath... more »
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Getting Intrigued by Entity Framework
Although Microsoft released LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework is also a very interesting technology that has many advantages over LINQ to SQL.
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5 Tips to be a Good JDBC Programmer
Have you written Java code for your database connections in JDBC that ends up being thrown away? Would using a new database software easily kill your... more »
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MySQL full-text search optimization with Sphinx
This article explains how to perform a MySQL full-text search optimization using Sphinx
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Navigationless Database XML: Hierarchical Data Processing
Although current databases limit XML processing to linear XPath or XQuery queries, existing hierarchical database techniques enable far more complex... more »
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Database GUID Implementation
A GUID, or Global Unique IDentifier, is a set of characters used to identify an object or data element and which is guaranteed to be unique within a... more »
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Why is the default answer always a web app?
On one of our NetBeans mailing lists, a new programmer asked a question, how should they build their application that needs to run on ten client... more »
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Looking to talk to a few good PHP developers
Last year I interviewed 10 different Java developers about how they use databases, and it was very enlightening. But I didn't talk to very many PHP... more »
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