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Get your Sybase ASE 15.5 MDA table posters! Straight from Sybase’s Jeff Tallman

I asked Jeff Tallman if I could redistribute his excellent MDA posters for Sybase’s ASE 15.5 database server.  He said yes so …  here they are in both Adobe PDF and Sybase PowerDesigner PDM formats!

Jeff Tallman also provided us with the MDA posters for Sybase 15.0.3 last year.

Andrew E. Bruno: Database Design with Dia

Back in December of 2007, Andrew E. Bruno wrote an excellent article on how to use the open source program Dia to design databases.  He used the resultant design to create a MySQL database but the same principles could be used to create just about any relational database from the design.  Dia is available for [...]

FW: Oracle 10g+ Security and Audit – Part 1

Over at the Database Geek Blog, Lewis Cunningham has provided the first of three blog posts on Oracle Security.  The first post is well done IMHO:

Oracle 10g+ Security and Audit – Part 1
This is a three-part definition of Oracle Security (specifically in 10g but applies to later versions also). Part 1 covers the various types [...]

Looking for a *FREE* Sybase SQL Server Database for Production, Development, Testing or whatever you want to do with it?

Sybase graciously still allows us to download SQL Server (since renamed ASE) 11.0.3.3 for Linux… for FREE:
The current version (ASE 11.0.3.3 ESD#6) package is different from previous distribution of ASE 11.0.3.3. The
new package separates ASE and OC/OS SDK. Also OC/OS is now available for Alpha platform. You can [...]

Should ORMs Insulate Developers from SQL?

I’ve been sick the past few days, so I have been hitting the “Stumble” button a lot on my laptop. Last night I ran across a very interesting blog post by Daniel Spiewak on his Code Commit blog:
This is a question which is fundamental to any ORM design.  And really from a philosophical standpoint, how [...]