Sybase Inc., Emeryville, CA, www.sybase.com) A software company founded in 1984 that specializes in client/server development products. It was originally known for its SQL Server relational DBMS, but expanded its line in 1995 when it acquired Powersoft, makers of the PowerBuilder application development software. Sybase offers a variety of application development tools, compilers, middleware, database and data warehousing products.

This tutorial cover the following topics in Sybase. Sybase data types Listing object names and attributes Creating a table Creating a proxy table Altering a table Creating an index Clustered vs non-clustered indexes Creating a constraint Table partitioning Tables which span multiple segments Creating a stored procedure Object...   Read Article.

This tutorial cover the following topics in Sybase. Database Administration Post-installation check Starting the Sybase process Device initialization Database creation A backup routine Striping dump devices Moving the transaction log to another device Adding a segment to a database Setting the thresholds Configuring the cache...   Read Article.

This tutorial cover the following topics in Sybase. The Sybase Server A Sybase server consists of: A) two processes, data server and backup server ; B) devices which house the databases; one database (master) contains system and configuration data ; C) a configuration file which contains the server attributes . Sybase Overview...   Read Article.

The Sybase Server A Sybase server consists of: A) two processes, data server and backup server ; B) devices which house the databases; one database (master) contains system and configuration data ; C) a configuration file which contains the server attributes . The Oracle Instance An Oracle instance consists of: A) five processes: system...   Read Article.

Our tests revealed that Sybase is significantly faster than Oracle. Caveats: 1) The hardware used was not 'Enterprise' class, no RAID was implemented. 2) The amount of data used in the test (about 15mb worth) is fairly substantial, but much smaller than the data manipulated in a typical enterprise class application. Finally, a test which compares...   Read Article.

Here are the list of Sybase Documentation Manuals for all the Product that Sybase offers. Adaptive Server Anywhere (Archive) Adaptive Server Enterprise (Archive) Adaptive Server Enterprise Monitor (Archive) Adaptive Server IQ (Archive) Sybase Character Sets (Archive) ClearConnect (Archive) Sybase dbQueue (Archive) DirectConnect...   Read Article.

Here are the list of Sybase Documentation Manuals for all the Product that Sybase offers. Industry Warehouse Studio Sybase IQ Risk Analytics Platform Warehouse Studio...   Read Article.

Often people in newsgroups ask about some comparison of Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase Adaptive Server. In this article, I compare SQL Server 2000 with Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5 (Sybase ASE 12.5) regarding price, performance, platforms supported, SQL dialects and products limits....   Read Article.

Welcome Back! In the first two parts of this series, we installed the Sybase database and configured the Perl language to work with the database. In part three, we will create a web application using our newly installed database server. Before you can manage an application using the Sybase server, some background information is in order. I will assume...   Read Article.

This is very good tutorial on Sybase Stored Procedures covers teh following topics in detail. This guide will attempt to show you how to create stored procedures for the World Wide Web. As I was in the middle of writing this guide, I realized it was about 10 times more lengthy than what I intended. The interface you will be using is slick, writing stored...   Read Article.