Does Distributed Data Management Increase Prosperity?
This article was first published on my Sybase blog on June 16, 2008. As part of Sybase's integration with SAP, and the shutdown of the Sybase blog server, I am republishing the post on the SAP SCN, and...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Maybe We Need Another Benchmark?
This post was originally written by Glenn Paulley and published to sybase.com in December of 2008. The quest for a good, representative benchmark continues today... For more than a decade we at...
View ArticleFrom The Archives: Surrogate Identifiers
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in December of 2008, Glenn provides some background and insight about the use of surrogate keys in your database schema. It...
View ArticleSQL Anywhere 11 and SBS2011 x64
I'm running SBS2011 x64, all service packs and updates applied. Server 2008 is the core of this but SQL Anywhere 11 will install but not start. Is there a problem with this server version being supported?
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 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...
View ArticleDoes Distributed Data Management Increase Prosperity?
This article was first published on my Sybase blog on June 16, 2008. As part of Sybase's integration with SAP, and the shutdown of the Sybase blog server, I am republishing the post on the SAP SCN, and...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Maybe We Need Another Benchmark?
This post was originally written by Glenn Paulley and published to sybase.com in December of 2008. The quest for a good, representative benchmark continues today... For more than a decade we at...
View ArticleFrom The Archives: Surrogate Identifiers
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in December of 2008, Glenn provides some background and insight about the use of surrogate keys in your database schema. It...
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Spatial Data for Nautilumni
Happy New Year 2014 to you all! If you miss the good old Sybase Nautilus (symbol of scalability) like I do, run this in Interactive SQL against a SQL Anywhere database (I used 12; 16 will probably work...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: ORMs and key generation
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in February of 2009, Glenn provides some insight on the generation and use of primary keys in hibernate. Since the publication...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Set Level Operations Do Matter
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in May of 2008, Glenn talks about why using set operations can be very good for performance when working with large volumes of...
View ArticleOperational Autonomy and Reduced Latency as a Business Strategy
This article was first published on my Sybase blog on June 26, 2008. As part of Sybase's integration with SAP, and the shutdown of the Sybase blog server, I am republishing the post on the SAP SCN, and...
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From the Archives: The Window Operator and Window Aggregate Functions
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in March of 2009, Glenn talks about some of the advanced functionality available for performing analytical operations in SQL...
View ArticleBundling Third Party and Open Source Code
I first wrote about this topic on my Sybase blog in September 2008. As part of Sybase’s integration with SAP, and the shutdown of the Sybase blog server, that previous post is no longer available, yet...
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From The Archives: Using recursive queries with SQL Anywhere
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in April of 2009, Glenn describes how recursive queries work in general, and in SQL Anywhere. Recursive SQL queries--also...
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Choropleth maps of @SCNblogs links and crime data using SQL Anywhere
Using SQL Anywhere's SVG capabilities for choropleth mapsBackgroundWhat are choropleth mapsWhat are BITLY linksStarting pointA plan comes togetherSVG codeMy own “Sybase blog from the archives”...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Using the MERGE statement with SQL Anywhere
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in April of 2009, Glenn provides details on the MERGE statement in SQL Anywhere. The latest documentation on the MERGE...
View ArticleFrom The Archives: SELECT TOP and START AT
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in April of 2009, Glenn uses the TOP/START query syntax to demonstrate how an ORM can make database application performance...
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