From the Archives: Materialized View Terminology
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in April of 2009, Glenn discusses the different terminology used by other vendors to talk about what we call materialized...
View ArticleFrom The Archives: SELECT over an UPDATE statement
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in May of 2009, Glenn talks about using SELECT over various DML queries, a feature that was added to SQL Anywhere in version...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Query processing challenges with Object-Relational Mapping...
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in May of 2009, Glenn talks about ORMs and the difficulties they pose to the SQL Anywhere query optimizer and the increasing...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Why Snapshot Isolation is so Useful
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in May of 2009, Glenn talks about MVCC and snapshot isolation (which is also part of SAP HANA) and why it is so useful in...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Customizing SQL Requests With Hints
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in June of 2009, Glenn talks about customizing query semantics via the use of hints. While hints can be incredibly useful in...
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From the Archives - Customizing SQL Requests With Hints - Part Deux
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in June of 2009, Glenn continues to talk about customizing query semantics via the use of hints. As he says in his post,...
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From the Archives: Using regular expressions with SQL Anywhere
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in June of 2009, Glenn discusses how regular expressions can be used within queries in SQL Anywhere. SQL Anywhere version...
View ArticleOpenSSL HeartBleed and SQL Anywhere
SAP takes the security of its products very seriously. The recent OpenSSL vulnerability known as Heartbleed does impact some users of SQL Anywhere.Here are the details: Affected ComponentsSQL Anywhere...
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From the Archives: Loading Data in More Flexible Ways - Part Un
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in July of 2009, Glenn discusses using the OPENSTRING clause in a select statement to load data into SQL Anywhere. Invariably...
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From the Archives: Using the BIT VARYING data type
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in July of 2009, Glenn discusses using the VARBIT datatype in SQL Anywhere. The ANSI/ISO SQL Standard eliminated the BIT and...
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SAP SYBASE SQL ANYWHERE 12.0.1 MANUALS FIXED TO WORK WITH TABLET/PHONE PDF...
Many PDF readers for smart phones (Android/iphone) and tablets manage the pdf files based solely on the Title and Author fields in the PDF file. While for this is fine for your average book, it is not...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Loading Data in More Flexible Ways - part deux
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in July of 2009, Glenn discusses using the LOAD TABLE to load data into SQL Anywhere when the data resides on the client. In...
View ArticleConnecting to SQL Anywhere using JDBC
I originally posted this a few years ago to help people configure their Java applications to use the iAnywhere JDBC driver, which was replaced by the SQL Anywhere JDBC driver in SQL Anywhere version...
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From the Archives: Invoking the SQL Flagger in SQL Anywhere
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in August of 2009, Glenn talks about validation of SQL statements against the ANSI/ISO SQL Standard from within SQL Anywhere....
View ArticleFrom the Archives: LIKE predicate semantics with blank-padded databases
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in August of 2009, Glenn talks about blank padded character strings and how they behave with respect to the LIKE predicate. In...
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From the Archives: What Exactly Is Thread Deadlock?
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in May of 2009, Glenn talks about thread deadlock in SQL Anywhere, and how application design can cause the problem. Note...
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From the Archives: Controlling service levels using the PRIORITY option
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in September of 2009, Glenn discusses using the PRIORITY option in SQL Anywhere. SQL Anywhere version 11 deprecated the...
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From the Archives: Mechanics of options in SQL Anywhere
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in September of 2009, Glenn discusses how options are used in SQL Anywhere, including the ability to create and set your own...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Benchmarks and measurement bias
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in March of 2009, Glenn talks about the perils of simplistic benchmarks and focuses specifically on measurement bias. In the...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Factors to consider for utilizing materialized views
In this post, originally written by Glenn Paulley and posted to sybase.com in September of 2009, Glenn talks about the two different types of materialized views and the questions to think about when...
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