Tag Archives: Database

Can NetBeans Make Wishes Come True?

Can NetBeans make my wishes come true – OK, maybe not…, but yesterday I blogged about the features I would like to see in a future version of NetBeans. Over on his blog, David Van Couvering has said that the NetBeans team are: … Continue reading

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Hibernate is the most popular Persistence API

A recent poll on java.net is currently showing that out of 1488 votes, Hibernate is the most common persistence API with 30.2% of the votes, whereas JDBC only has 11.3% of the votes. Its interesting and encouraging to see the number of … Continue reading

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Starting the Java DB in Glassfish

I’ve been doing a lot of development in NetBeans 5.5 beta 2 recently using Glassfish as my target application server. When doing development, its often quite useful to use the Derby DB bundled within Glassfish. As you’d expect from a modern IDE, NetBeans makes … Continue reading

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Four Rules for NULLs in databases

There is an interesting article over on sqlservercentral.com that gives four rules for using null values in databases. Its quite an interesting read for anyone starting out with databases. The article is biased to SQL Server, but a lot of the article … Continue reading

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New Microsoft 2005 (2000) JDBC Driver Released

The new Microsoft SQL Server 2005 driver has been released and can be downloaded from here. The new driver is a type 4 driver that has been completely written from scratch and supports SQL Server 2000 as well as 2005. Accoring … Continue reading

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SQL Server – The Best Database in the World

OK, that’s maybe overstating it a bit, but I do think that the tools that come with SQL Server are very developer friendly. Take, for instance, the SQL Profiler. I find that this is particularly useful when writing any code … Continue reading

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JDBC Drivers

I’ve just come across this tip over on devx.com listing JDBC drivers and their connection strings for many different database vendors. It may come in handy someday so I’ve bookmarked it here. I was surprised though that it doesn’t contain details of … Continue reading

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Spring Connection Pooling with DBCP

Recently I wanted to add a connection pool to my Spring Web Application. I decided to use Commons DBCP to provide the connection pool as I’m using the Spring JDBC wrapper classes. Googling around didn’t find any examples of how … Continue reading

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