Okay, so there I was, slaving away at getting some slides together for the 3rd in the series of Webcasts on RS 15.5, and I realized a couple of things….

1) There have been a TON of changes in the recent years
2) Few people were aware of it because they mistakenly think they are locked into 12.6 because still on ASE 12.5.

Yes, there are a lot of really neato changes that have made the news…and launch verbiage – you know – Bulk Insert DSI’s, HVAR/RTL, NRM thread, etc. Yep. All very important.

But there have been some behind the scenes stealthy changes (some not so minor) that have come along too. I thought I would compile my list of favorites (more…)

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 SQL User-Defined function to (more…)