Jason L. Froebe – Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

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Sybase Workspace 2.1: Do NOT update Data Tools Platform (DTP) from Eclipse’s website!

by Jason L Froebe on March 19, 2009, 2 comments

Sybase Workspace is an Eclipse distribution that uses highly customized Data Tools Platform (DTP) plugins.  Updating the Sybase version of DTP with the standard DTP release from Eclipse will break Sybase’s Workspace. Last night I updated Workspace’s DTP with the standard DTP release from Eclipse’s website.  Several oddities started showing up when accessing the DTP [...]

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What is with the ISUG Enhancements versus Sybase CR/Bugs on the sybase-product-futures mailing list?

by Jason L Froebe on July 15, 2008, one comment

In the MSA and System transactions performedby maint user thread on the sybase-product-futures mailing list, Jeff Tallman mentions that someone needs to create an ISUG enhancement or a Sybase change request (CR).  Mike Harrold let everyone know that even through creating a Sybase CR is put in the Sybase engineering queue, it doesn’t mean that [...]

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Why oh why can’t we have PostgreSQL’s CREATE [TEMPORARY] SEQUENCE in Sybase ASE?

by Jason L Froebe on July 10, 2008, no comments

I know you can simulate it by creating a temp table with an identity column, delete old rows, get the max, etc but still… PostgreSQL’s create sequence would be very handy…  btw, Oracle has it too It would allow us to do things like pgTAP with ease..  Check out the slides for pgTAP just my [...]

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