Native support of SQLite in Sybase PowerBuilder and PowerDesigner?
What I would love to see is native support for SQLite. http://www.sqlite.org It is the most installed embedded database on the planet hands down. Don’t believe me? You know that Firefox web browser,...
View ArticleAnybody running VMware’s VMotion in production?
Don’t know what VMware VMotion is? VMotion allows you to easily move one virtual machine to another VMware ESX host that is connected to the same storage mechanism (presumably SAN) with no downtime....
View ArticleIntroducing QweryBuilder, a Developer GUI for Sybase ASE, SQL Anywhere,...
QweryBuilder uses innovative ideas to provide developers with the ability to easily insert, extract and modify data from a variety of databases. The goal of QweryBuilder is to increase a database...
View ArticleWanted: Microsoft SQL Server DBA (Chicago, IL)
Position Responsibilities Provides DBA services for Production, test, and development databases Administers and maintains the production, test, and development databases. Performs SQL code releases...
View ArticleHowTo: Comparing two tables and returning the # of rows that match FAST
The most intuitive way to write a comparison of two tables and spit out the # of rows that are the same involves a left join: select 'Investment' as TableName, count(*) as RowCount from Investment_A a,...
View ArticleHOWTO: Building Perl module DBD::Sybase 1.14 on Windows (32bit or 64bit) with...
Compiling the DBD::Sybase Perl module really requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 or higher. To get started open the “Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt”. You will need to fix the Makefile.PL file: if (...
View ArticleHOWTO: Installing and running SAP / Sybase SQL Server 11.0.3.3 esd 6 on...
You can run KVM on just about any modern Linux distribution provided that your host is capable of providing virtualization. The folks over at HowtoForge go through the steps for Ubuntu 12.10. What you...
View ArticleSybase SQL Server 11.0.3.3 for Linux – still going strong
Last night I helped a friend at a small company install, configure and tune Sybase SQL Server 11.0.3.3 for Linux using the same method as I used on HOWTO: INSTALLING AND RUNNING SAP / SYBASE SQL SERVER...
View ArticleConnect to Microsoft SQL Server (including Azure instances) from Linux...
Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server from Linux can be done through two different methods: ODBC and JDBC. Unfortunately, FreeTDS doesn’t connect to the newest versions of SQL Server unless you want to...
View ArticleSAP Sybase IQ – dbcc for IQ? Yes! Just use sp_iqcheckdb
If you’re coming from Microsoft SQL Server or Sybase ASE, SAP’s IQ doesn’t have the slew of dbcc commands you might expect. It rolls up all the pertinent dbccs into a single stored procedure....
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