<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Mertech Flex2SQL Tech Blog &#187; Development Tools</title>
	<atom:link href="http://blog.flex2sql.com/index.php/category/development-tools/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://blog.flex2sql.com</link>
	<description>Tech Tips, articles and resources related to Mertech's Flex2SQL product</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:23:29 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<title>Working with new SQL Server 2008 data types</title>
		<link>http://blog.flex2sql.com/index.php/2011/10/working-with-new-sql-server-2008-data-types/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.flex2sql.com/index.php/2011/10/working-with-new-sql-server-2008-data-types/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riaz Merchant</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development Tools]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.flex2sql.com/?p=640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DataFlex only supports five physical data types: NUMERIC, ASCII, DATE, TEXT and BINARY. The sixth, OVERLAP, is a logical type which maps to any one of the physical types.  In the SQL world however, there are many different data types that the driver has to support. This is especially important when you are connecting [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.flex2sql.com/index.php/2011/10/working-with-new-sql-server-2008-data-types/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Case handling</title>
		<link>http://blog.flex2sql.com/index.php/2011/06/case-handling/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.flex2sql.com/index.php/2011/06/case-handling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gandalf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development Tools]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.flex2sql.com/?p=624</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With previous driver versions, Mertech allowed object names to be either all upper case or all lower case. The field names followed the convention selected for the table name. Now users are able to determine how the driver handles table and field names.


Convert to upper case
Convert to lower case
Keep all cases as stored in Dataflex

NOTE: The [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.flex2sql.com/index.php/2011/06/case-handling/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Blob Handling in DataFlex with Mertech&#8217;s Drivers</title>
		<link>http://blog.flex2sql.com/index.php/2011/05/blob-handling-in-dataflex-with-mertechs-drivers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.flex2sql.com/index.php/2011/05/blob-handling-in-dataflex-with-mertechs-drivers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 19:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riaz Merchant</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development Tools]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.flex2sql.com/?p=608</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[BLOBs (binary large object) are very large, variable length, binary or character data objects. BLOBS are typically documents (e.g., .pdf, .doc) or pictures (e.g., .jpeg, .gif, .bmp).
NOTE: Related terms, LOB (large object) and CLOB (character large object in Oracle), are used to refer to large objects consisting entirely of text data.
BLOBs can either be stored [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.flex2sql.com/index.php/2011/05/blob-handling-in-dataflex-with-mertechs-drivers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>How is the best way to update customer&#8217;s DataBase structures?</title>
		<link>http://blog.flex2sql.com/index.php/2011/02/how-is-the-best-way-to-update-customers-database-structures/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.flex2sql.com/index.php/2011/02/how-is-the-best-way-to-update-customers-database-structures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcello Yo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development Tools]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.flex2sql.com/?p=597</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Currently you can update your database through:
1. Flex2SQL
2. dbBuilder
3. DataFlex restructure commands
4. Directly on the SQL Server and manually changing INT files
It is common to have a DBA that wants to review all schema changes to the database, which makes options 1-3 difficult, or outright prohibited by the DBA. Option 4 is manual and prone [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.flex2sql.com/index.php/2011/02/how-is-the-best-way-to-update-customers-database-structures/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Improving performance when inserting records</title>
		<link>http://blog.flex2sql.com/index.php/2011/02/improving-performance-when-inserting-records/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.flex2sql.com/index.php/2011/02/improving-performance-when-inserting-records/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcello Yo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development Tools]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.flex2sql.com/?p=449</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Mertech Drivers allow to improve performance when inserting records by using the SQL_SAVE_BUFFER macro command. You can specify a block of records, that will be submitted in batch to the server, instead of having each record be saved at a time.
You can set the block size based on the DF_FILE_RECORDS_USED attribute from the source [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blog.flex2sql.com/index.php/2011/02/improving-performance-when-inserting-records/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

