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From the Archives: Dynamic Memory Management
This post was originally written by Glenn Paulley and published to his blog on Sybase.com in April of 2008 When a database system is embedded in an application as part of an installable package, it...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: I Don't Have Any Silver Bullets
This post was originally written by Glenn Paulley and published in May of 2008 on sybase.com. While old, this question still comes up and the same answer still applies today. I don't keep detailed...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Additional Knobs are not the Answer
This post was originally written by Glenn Paulley in May of 2008 and published to sybase.com. In a previous post I stated that I do not believe that many firms go to the trouble of detailed...
View ArticleNorthwind sample database migrated to SA16 and OData
The Northwind sample database from Microsoft has become an industry-recognized use case, and there are hundreds of sample apps that have been designed against this particular model. I've migrated that...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: The Myth of Linear Scalability
This post was originally written by Glenn Paulley and published to sybase.com in May of 2008. One of the pitfalls Ivan Bowman and I outline in our white paper, Capacity Planning with SQL Anywhere, is...
View ArticleThe Trichotomy of Software Development
Last month, I was visiting a friend’s repair shop, and noticed this ‘Service Policy’ posted on his door, somewhat as a joke: We provide service which is CHEAP, FAST & PERFECTYou can have any twoIf...
View ArticleIs Oracle the First Multi-tenant Database for the Cloud?
The recent release of Oracle 12c has caused a lot of discussion around its marquee feature, pluggable databases. When this feature was first announced back in October 2012, it was presented as the...
View ArticleRunning a SQL Anywhere database server on cloned systems
There are situations where you may want to clone an existing system and deploy that image to other computers. A couple examples include training and mass deployment. Applications that embed the SQL...
View ArticleMicrosoft AdventureWorks sample db - SA16 version
This is the Microsoft AdventureWorks sample database, migrated from MS SQLServer 2012 to SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere 16. Due to language and functionality differences, it's not a 100% port of the entire...
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From the Archives: Full Text Search in SQL Anywhere
This post was originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in May of 2008 In a recent post, James Hamilton of Microsoft Research espoused his enthusiasm for full text search, and I...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: What Self-Management Is (and Isn't)
This post was originally written by Glenn Paulley and published to sybase.com in June of 2008. Self-management has been a cornerstone of the success of SQL Anywhere, and our ability to simply...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Its All About the Latency
This insightful post was originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in June of 2008. Recently, it was discussed whether or not distributed data management (versus centralized data...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Cross and Outer Apply
This post was originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in July of 2008. It demonstrates the depth of SQL support provided inside SQL Anywhere. I'd like to draw your attention to...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: How to Give a Query Optimizer Fits
This post was originaly written by Glenn Paulley and posted to Sybase.com in September of 2008. I am keenly interested in studying SQL constructions. Obviously it is part of my job to understand and...
View ArticleBehind Every Cloud, There are Real People
This article was first published on my Sybase blog on October 24, 2011. As part of Sybase's integration with SAP, and the shutdown of the Sybase blog server, I am republishing in on the SAP SCN, and...
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From the Archives: Self-Managing Index Clustering Statistics
This post was originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in September of 2008. One of the improvements that my team has made to self-managing statistics maintenance in SQL Anywhere...
View ArticleSQL Anywhere at TechEd 2013 Las Vegas
SAP TechEd 2013 is quickly approaching. I, along with some other members of the SQL Anywhere tem will be attending. If you are attending TechEd and would like to meet with us to talk about anything...
View ArticleNativeDB for SQL Anywhere
NativeDB is a set of Borland VCL and Microsoft ActiveX database interface components that can be installed into your favorite development environment. They have supported SQL Anywhere for over 10...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: The Perils of Simplistic Benchmarks
This post was originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in October of 2008. I am often made aware of attempts by customers to "benchmark" SQL Anywhere. The vast majority of these...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: The Pitfalls of Using Windows Task Manager
This post was originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in October of 2008. A common problem on Windows is identifying how much physical memory is in use by a SQL Anywhere database...
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