Enterprise Database Management
So what does an ASE database look like in SAP ERP?
Unless you’ve been living in a cave with no internet connection, it will not be news that SAP and Sybase have been working on making SAP Business Suite run on Sybase ASE. Engineering teams from the two companies (well, we’re really one company now, but you’ll get my meaning) have spent a lot of effort [...]
Big & small stuff in ASE 15.7, and a note for ‘Peter’
Last week I did my part in a 5-episode webcast series about Sybase ASE 15.7 – the latest and greatest incarnation of your favorite OLTP DBMS (and not just yours: ASE is also SAP’s preferred OLTP DBMS; see here for more).
In case you missed it: ASE 15.7 was released on September 28th, and can now [...]
Finally: here’s how to use ASE in-memory databases with replication
Over the past 2 years, I’ve talked to lots of customers about the ASE in-memory database (IMDB) feature that was introduced in ASE 15.5.
One of the questions I got most often was whether replication was supported with ASE IMDB. Up till now, the not-so-clear answer was both ‘yes’ and ‘no’. But as of July 2011, [...]
SAP’s preferred ERP database: Sybase ASE
Earlier this year, I blogged that things were looking great for Sybase ASE, among other databases. About half a year later, this looks ever more true.
Now, I may rightly be accused of being somewhat biased towards ASE, but in this case I’m taking my cues from sources with significant credibility of their own.
First, IDC analyst [...]
Peeking ahead to ASE 15.7: the MERGE statement
In the second half of 2011, the release of the next version of ASE is expected: ASE 15.7.
(on the version number: the previous version was ASE 15.5, so, indeed, we’re skipping 15.6. Why? Well, because sometimes you just have to…)
I’ve been on a road show last week (the EMEA TechDays) and on a transatlantic flight [...]
2011: an interesting year for Sybase databases
Gravity sucks.
An unfortunate fall (or rather, an unfortunate landing) caused me to break a shoulder bone a few weeks ago, greatly complicating any activity requiring active involvement of my right arm or shoulder. Turns out there’s a lot more of those activities than you’re normally aware of… Anyway, things have improved a bit by now [...]
Impressions from SAP TechEd 2010
Even if you’ve only loosely followed developments around Sybase, it’s still pretty likely that you noticed Sybase being acquired by SAP recently.
Yes, Sybase is now part of the largest application software company in the world.
Even though I’ve gotten used to it now (and I even have an SAP email address in addition to [...]
Preventing Data Breaches with Sybase ASE
At this weeks security session on Preventing Data Breaches, we asked a Polling question, so I though the results should be shared. They are very interesting in that all attendees are aware of sensitive data within their systems and that basic need to protect even personal information is a critical concept in today’s world.
This [...]
Solid State Disks: Why are you still using metal platters???
Let’s face it – disks are slow. In the last decade almost nothing has happened to those nice little zinc-oxide platters that have been spinning in our data centers. For example, 15K rpm disks came out a lllloooonnnggg time ago and still represent the leading edge of the rotational speed of the disks. [...]
Making good on my ‘exercise for the reader’…
A few months ago, I wrote an article for the Q4, 2009 edition of the ISUG Technical Journal, on the topic of “Decoding Captured ‘Missing Statistics’ In ASE 15.0.3 ESD#1″ (if you cannot find back your copy of the ISUG Tech Journal, the article is also available here).
The article describes a neat application of a [...]