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Winning Hearts and Minds: Strategies for Team Buy-In on Data Projects

  • 22 November, 2024
  • By Dave Cassel

When it comes to Big Data initiatives, selecting the right tools, platforms, and architectures is important. Often overlooked is the importance of getting your team on board with the project and the approach. Gaining buy-in across business units is critical to the success of any data project. Without it, even the best technologies can fail […]

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What Makes a Great Progress MarkLogic Developer?

  • 2 July, 2024
  • By Dave Cassel

The pace of change in technology is a never-ending challenge that all developers need to manage. Progress MarkLogic developers are certainly no strangers to this. When MarkLogic was first released in the early 2000s, it was a database for XML that you interacted with using XQuery. In the last 20 years, the database’s capabilities have […]

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Best Practices for Logging in MarkLogic

  • 13 May, 2024
  • By Dave Cassel

An important element in software development is understanding what’s happening as your application runs. The user interface should provide responses to user actions, including informative messages when something goes wrong. For the development team to get deeper insights, we turn to logging for more detailed information. In this post, we’ll look at some options for […]

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What is a Reverse Query?

  • 6 May, 2024
  • By Dave Cassel

How do you know when your database has something new that would interest your users? How do you categorize incoming data? How do you know whose workflow to assign a new document to? With Progress MarkLogic, you use the reverse query feature. Let’s take a look. In a normal (forward) query, we define a set […]

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