- Interbase/Firebird Development Studio 5.0 — Any database specialist knows how much his work effectiveness depends on the «right» tools. Of course, you can do database design, analysis, and query development «by hand». But wouldn’t visual «designers», SQL syntax highlighting, code auto-completion, and much more of advanced stuff make you happier and let you do your work faster? Well, if you really want to be a fast and happy database…
- Database Tour Pro 5.1.0.715. Manage your database with variety of functions! — For a software developer, a «Swiss knife»-style tool can be incredibly useful, but only when that?s the «right» tool. The problem is, nobody can tell you exactly, how to determine whether a tool is «right». A right tool must be full-featured, but it must not be overloaded with features; a right tool must have laconic and functional interface, but it must be easy to learn and understand…
- Active Multimedia SFX Library — Three common types of media create digital content: text, image, and sound. They are similar as they can have various origins and various means, be used for various purposes and in various amounts. But the difference between the three types of content is the ease of production. As for text — anybody can write text, with any computer (or even without it), texts are easy to compile and rework; creating new images is harder, but with…
- GNCutter32 1.1. Let a Professional Library Do It — Some obvious tasks in the area of «practical algorithms» seem to be easy at the first glance, but as you try to complete them, you more and more tend to think you can’t do it! A good example of that is a frequent material-cutting planning task, which is completely solved by the GNCutter32 library. The library’s most outstanding feature is that it is not just…
- InterBase/Firebird Development Studio 5.1.3. Database Designer. — There is an amazing integrated suite for working with Interbase and Firebird, obviously named InterBase/Firebird Development Studio. It is really brilliant in all of its aspects and components, but I want to speak about the «first between equals» — the Database Designer component. IB/FB Development Studio’s Database Designer is a many-sided crystal. It serves as: Full-fledged visual ER diagram…
- Select Fast! Improve query performance. — Select Fast! is unique software created by a professional developer to ease the life and work of colleagues. Select Fast! for Oracle is a tool for automating the repetitive tasks associated with the SQL tuning process on Oracle databases. The vital purpose of this program is to help you find the best action to improve the performance of the query. Check out this excellent innovative product; I bet you will love…
- DecryptSQL, Conquer Encrypted Queries — Remember the plot of any blockbuster or spy movie you watched recently? A good guy pursues a bad but clever secret agent, almost captures him, but… Suddenly, the bad guy’s traces disappear, and the good guy has little or no clue of where the trace would continue. Dealing with someone else’s code is a lot similar. As soon as you decide you’ve figured it out, you may stumble upon a trick you…
- OLEDB Direct - a great set of COM interfaces for database-driven applications — When you are creating a database-driven application, interaction with the database becomes one of the key pieces of the overall functionality that requires significant time to implement. If you are using multiple data sources, this task becomes even more complex due to the complexity of database connections and related routines. That is the exactly the case when a universal database interface would come very handy. If you are exploring the…
- Axigen v6 - a 1-2-3 approach to setting up a fully-functional mail server on Linux — For the majority of users, the task of installing a mail server on Linux is something beyond possible. Despite its active popularization, Linux still remains a system for enthusiasts where nearly every serious system-related action is carried out in the console and where deep knowledge of system commands is an absolute must. In most cases, Linux servers inevitably require an experienced system administrator for ongoing…
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