Replay: Sold out real-time SQL access to Salesforce API at Dreamforce #DF13
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A few weeks back a colleague and I were driving through Seattle, and we began to debate the reach of ODBC as a key data standard. His perspective was that ODBC was really a C/C++ technology, and that...
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For “big data” connectivity, I see a very high percentage of projects delivering business value from big data initiatives that require data connectivity from DataDirect. This was specifically around...
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