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 (more…)

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 (more…)

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’. (more…)

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 (more…)

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…) (more…)

Gravity sucks.
An unfortunate fall (or rather, an unfortunate landing) caused me to break (more…)

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 my Sybase email) I must say I’m still pretty excited about the acquisition, and I see lots of opportunities for the Sybase infrastructure products (more…)

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 is the Poll results from my recent online security seminar.

So, these results show a clear need to store both personal and customer information, which also needs to be secured. I was pleasantly surprised by the number, 18%, of systems that store Credit Card information, since that is closely governed by VISA and Mastercard.

Thank you to everyone that showed up, and I will update this post, or create another one when the OnDemand URL becomes available.

EDIT:
Here are the two links for the OnDemand webcast and the whitepaper that covers a discussion around data breaches and sybase options.

Thank you to all the people that made this years techwave such a great success. From customers to partners to employees there was an air of excitement about or continued commitment to the products in our portfolio even after the SAP acquisition. The roadmap sessions held on Wednesday afternoon were all well attended with good questions from the audience answered by the product managers. In the IQ roadmap session Yiwen lead us through the next three years of product direction, while Raj in the ASE session showed a clear commitment to fulfill outstanding customer requests in the upcoming releases.

All in all these releases lookto keep us a great market position to continue our double digit growth.

Many ASE users are familiar with the concept of using Unix/Linux named pipes (FIFOs) in combination with BCP in order to speed up transferring data between ASE servers. These named pipes are the things you create with the Unix/Linux mkfifo command.

Guess what? Despite this having been used by many Sybase users forever, using BCP with FIFOs has formally always been unsupported by Sybase. (more…)