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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Hot off the presses JDBC 4.0 release - and why you care!

What's the big deal you say? Well, we now have the best client-side application failover of any JDBC drivers. It makes Oracle TAF look like a toy. To start with, we do not require that you use an expensive server-side technology like Oracle RAC, DB2 HADR, or Microsoft Clustering. Although not...

Jesse Davis August 30, 2008
Can a SQL dog learn a new trick?

Ok, I admit it. I'm a relational guy. SQL is my language of choice - the old standby that does it all, why would I need more?!?


Another tool in my toolbox you say? Something for when SQL is not enough or I want to do more? The world isn't all rows and columns you say? Hmm.....I do like...

Jesse Davis July 02, 2008
Cloud Computing - is it a good idea?

We have all seen google app engine, amazon's web services, SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) from Microsoft, and others. The whole premise behind the movement is to make your IT infrastructure "rentable". I for one think that this is both a great idea and a bad one all at once. For instance, it makes...

Jesse Davis May 02, 2008
What is Google App Engine?

What is Google App Engine? Here is a good description from their website:

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Jesse Davis April 15, 2008
Programming for multi-core performance - in Java?
Performance is a huge concern when writing any Java code, especially since many still do not realize the benefits of coding to a hotspot vm and believe Java to be a "slower" language than something like C/C++. As someone with a hardware background, I frequently hear that faster computers are the...
Jesse Davis April 11, 2008
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