Jesse Davis

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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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...

Jesse Davis July 24, 2009
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...

Jesse Davis June 11, 2009
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...

Jesse Davis June 02, 2009
Options for Fine Tuning Memory Usage in Hibernate using Oracle
Suppose you’ve been tasked with tracking down the memory usage of your application you’ve written with Hibernate. You’ve traced and tuned, and you think you should be able to squeeze more out of your database drivers. For this specific example...
Jesse Davis May 29, 2009
Worldwide Data Mining: Wolfram Alpha!
For all you data geeks out there, there’s a new world wide data mining tool on the block, released just last week! Wolfram Alpha was developed by scientist Stephen Wolfram and according to their site, “Today's...
Jesse Davis May 26, 2009
JDBC Back to Basics: Part 1: Connecting

In this JDBC Basics series we'll go through the basic steps needed to get a knowledge of JDBC. Following this series we'll go through more advanced features of JDBC drivers, such as advanced security (Kerberos, etc...), performance tuning, etc.. For completeness, we'll show code examples for SQL...

Jesse Davis January 24, 2009
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