MarieDB

How many know about the database MarieDB? The database is growing faster and faster. It takes market shares from MySQL.  Why just from MySQL?

MarieDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL. It means that we can access and work with as it was a MySQL database. The differences between them are improvements made in MarieDB.

Among the people that stand behind MarieD is Michael “Monty” Widenius the creator of MySQL. The issues with MySQL license model have pushed more and more corporates and individuals to switch to MarieDB. The future of MySQL can now be questioned, especially when Oracle is involved.

The start page of MarieDB: https://mariadb.org/

The start page for AskMonty Knowledge Base: SkySQL: https://kb.askmonty.org/en/

Enjoy!

Kind regards,
Dennis

Combinatorics Using Excel Formulas

I have the honor to know Roberto Mensa via Linked In. He is strongly committed to explore, develop, improve and to discuss formulas in Excel. The site is fully dedicated to Excel formulas. If You’re serious about MS Excel then this site is a must.  Of course, he is not alone, another great contributor is Krisztina Szabó aka Kris.

The virtual spot has the name E90E50 fx. I have no ideas for what it stand for…

Anyway, You may start at the following point: E90E50 fx.

The link points to the main page. However, the latest contribution is Combinatorics using Excel formulas.

Make sure You have some hours free to take part of the contribution. Don’t forget to bring coffee to the computer.

Enjoy and have a nice Easter Weekend!

Kind regards,
Dennis

Clean Up!

As part of my maintenance, in order to keep the computer fresh, is to regular run the built-in tool Free up disk space.

The tool is accessible via the following commands:

• Start Button > Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools > Free up disk space

After running it the following dialog is showed:

Yes, I admit it was some time ago since I last executed the clean up process. However, I cannot understand how Temporary Files can grow to a size of 30 GB?

In addition, does anyone know if it exist a small utility that can automatically clean up Temporary Files?

The general recommendation is to not forget to run the Free up disk space on a regular basis!

Kind regards,
Dennis

Great News From Paradigma Software & Syncfusion Inc

Paradigma Software released version 5.0 of its Valentina Database and tools. The hard databases competition is an advantage for us developers; we get better tools and more for our money.

Paradigma Software continue to offer some great tools for free;

• An updated and more powerful Valentina Studio which now also supports MySQL DB, PostgreSQL DB. And since prevously version Valentina Dbs and SQLite Dbs
• An updated and more powerful Valentina Server / 5

Of course, Paradigma Software also offers Premium products such as  Valentina Server , Valentina Studio Pro and a great number of ADKs and Report ADKs  for nearly all existing developing platforms.

For more information please visit:

Syncfusion, Inc, have also released new versions of their first class components for the .NET platform, WinRT and Windows Phone (Beta). Check it out at:

Kind regards,
Dennis

PS: I have no commercial interest in any business. I’m just a pleased customer who believes that high quality tools and components should be expoxed to other developers.

Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012

Great news! Microsoft have announced today that the RTM version of Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 has been launched.

For more information please read the following entry at Somasegar’s blog:

Now Available: Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012

Enjoy!

Kind regards,
Dennis