I read some blogs from time to time. Not a lot, but usually I search them when I am looking for a fellow programmer who feels my pain. I was searching tonight and came across a great blog post by Mark Heath that really hit the nail on the head of what I have been living this week. Refactoring to the...

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I have mentioned to a few people that we are working on optimizations and performance internal to the engine. I wanted to take a brief blog post to explain an optimization concept that is subtle, but makes a big difference in runtime performance. Hashtables Internally quite a few structures are stored...

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VistaDB has had connection pooling since one of the early betas. I was recently speaking with a user who had some questions and I could not remember the answers, so I looked through the code. I found one property that was not exposed to the public interface, and I decided to take the time to document...

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