Jason L. Froebe: Ramblings of a Geek

After talking with Mike Harold, the Executive Director of ISUG, I’ve nominated myself for one of the three Director positions on the ISUG board of directors.  I asked Mike many many questions, both on the sybase-l mailing list and in private emails. 

Mike Harrold
Posted: Sep 21, 2007 01:54 PM
To:  sybase-l@lists.isug.com
Subject:  re: How to be placed on the ballot for the next election?

Jason,

Nominations can be submitted by completing the nomination form at:

http://my.isug.com/index.php?module=survey&op=respond&sid=19

But first, read the news item at:

http://my.isug.com/p/ne/ar/sid=407&topic=112

There are qualifications for some positions that need to be met otherwise the nominations will be rejected. Obviously it is much better if people read the requirements before they nominate themselves, but that sometimes doesn’t happen…

Regards,

Mike Harrold
Executive Director
International Sybase User Group
Email: Mike.Harrold@NOSPAMMING!isug.com
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Join ISUG today at http://my.isug.com/join

I would like to try to help ISUG and the Sybase community more than just being a member of TeamSybase and this blog.  Please vote for me when the ballots are given out.

thanks

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Taken from Sybase’s website

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This is the first time since 1998 that there was a big push for new TeamSybase members. I’m not certain if we are going to be see a loosening of the TeamSybase requirements. I’m looking forward to having new members but at the same time I’m a little hesitant as the group is the best of the best. Maybe I’m just getting old.

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Back at the dawn of the new millennia, Mark A. Parsons created and presented Replicating Logins, Passwords, Users, and Groups at the Sybase TechWave Australasia 2000 conference.  He provides different methods on how to keep specific tables in the master databases in sync across replicated servers.  This is extremely important in warm standby environments.

Kudos to Mark!

Mark Parsons is an independent consultant currently working in North America. He has been working with Sybase ASE since 1991. His skill set covers all areas touching on the ASE dataserver, with recent emphasis on performance and tuning as well as production support and troubleshooting.Joined TeamSybase: 2006
Products Supported: Adaptive Server Enterprise, Replication Server

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mixed load is the only official support mode

• starting in ASE 15.0.2 - support for OLTP and DSS modes

I had never heard of this prior to coming to this year’s TeamSybase Annual Meeting.

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The Performance & Tuning Guide for version 15 of ASE has been broken up into five manuals. They will be released to SyBooks as they become available from the technical writers. The estimated first book release is summer of this year!

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The replication capabilities of MySQL are relatively primitive when compared to the more mature Replication Server from Sybase. Sybase expects to support full featured replication using Sybase’s Replication Server in late 2008 with MySQL. This would be an add-on (RepServer Options) to the standard Replication Server product. Keep in mind that this is a tentative time frame and it can arrive sooner or later than 2008.

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There are a number of enhancements that are scheduled to be Sybase’s Workspace version 2.0. Keep in mind that these features are tentative and may be kept or dropped when Workspace 2.0 is released. I received permission from Sybase’s Project Management to mention this information.

• Support for Eclipse’s update service for the Sybase components of Workspace
• Enterprise Manager entirely replaces Database Manager
• embedded PowerDesigner 12.5
• Eclipse 3.3
• Possible Linux and/or Mac OSX version
• Network Installer
• Windows Vista support

Database Development

• DDL generation of multiple objects including permissions
• Visual SQL enhancements (adhoc queries)
• intelligent sql statement templates (stored procedures)
• RTMS MQ Series support
• wizard & schema support for IQ specific indexes and query plans
• multiple object wizard for drops & execution on RepServer
• enhanced integration for RepConnector Manager
• Adoption of DTP framework

Services Development

• Development of logical services
• declarative composite services
• support for ws-security API
• Publish & subscribe to JMS Topics
• Build properties editor usability enhancements

Data Federation

• better integration with ws-security framework
• connection profile to Data Federation
• awareness in services editor mobile tooling, sql editor
• access to data grid as a soap service

Web App Development

• JSF page validation support
• integration with IBM’s faces-config
• EAServer 6 support

Framework

• eclipse 3.3 support
1. help system keyword index
2. composite cheat sheets
3. new welcome framework
• enhanced packaging and development
• enhanced enterprise explorer
• support access to ldap directories, including connection profile storage
• capability support
• greater configuration of desktop

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I’m returning to California for the annual TeamSybase meeting this weekend. Not only do we get additional training, but we are able to grab the ears, figuratively, of engineering and project management. If any one has anything they would like me to bring up with Sybase’s Engineering, Project Management or brass, please reply to this post or email me.

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