Quasi-Newton Methods (Mathematica Tutorial)

There are many variants of quasi-Newton methods. In all of them, the idea is to base the matrix B_k in the quadratic model on an approximation of the Hessian matrix built up ...

Variables and Starting Conditions (Mathematica Tutorial)

All the functions FindMinimum, FindMaximum, and FindRoot take variable specifications of the same form. The function FindFit uses the same form for its parameter ...

Connection Pools (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

Database connection pools are a common way to improve the performance of database operations. They can be useful because creating a new connection can easily take several ...

Database Reference (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

HSQLDB is a relational database engine written in Java that is bundled with DatabaseLink, which also contains a JDBC driver and necessary configuration. It offers a small ...

Database Resources (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

DatabaseLink allows other Mathematica applications to hold resource information for database connections in DatabaseResources directories. There are a number of possible ...

Data Type Mapping (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

One of the most important issues for using a database is the conversion of data as it is stored and retrieved from a database. This tutorial will discuss how Mathematica ...

Examples (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

This example shows how to use a private database to store Mathematica commands and query the data from Java and Mathematica. If you find that the examples in this section do ...

Selecting Data with Raw SQL (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

The raw SQL command SELECT selects and returns data from a database. An alternative is to use the Mathematica command SQLSelect, described in "Selecting Data". If you find ...

Data Types (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

This tutorial discusses how to retrieve information about data types. When you create a table, you will need to refer to these data types. If you find that the examples in ...

Introduction (NETLink Tutorial)

Welcome to .NET/Link, a product that integrates Mathematica and Microsoft's .NET platform. .NET/Link lets you call .NET from Mathematica in a completely transparent way, and ...