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

Assuming that you installed Sybase OpenClient 15.5 from the 15.5 PC Client:
Install ActiveState Perl from http://www.activestate.com (free) and install DBI if it isn’t already installed.  It should be but you never know…

Start -> ActiveState Perl -> Perl Package Manager
install DBI
exit

Now, the easy part.  Install the DBD::Sybase 1.09.01 PPM:

download DBD::Sybase 1.09.01 PPM
extract zip file [...]

Assuming that you installed Sybase OpenClient 15.5 from the 15.5 PC Client:
Install ActiveState Perl from http://www.activestate.com (free) and install DBI if it isn’t already installed.  It should be but you never know…

Start -> ActiveState Perl -> Perl Package Manager
install DBI
exit

Now, the easy part.  Install the DBD::Sybase 1.09 PPM:

download DBD::Sybase 1.09 PPM
extract zip file to temporary [...]

I was very much surprised just how easy it is to convert a Microsoft Windows 7 laptop into a virtual machine running within Sun’s VirtualBox.  This is what I did:

Pull the hard drive from the laptop.  On my Dell Latitude, it was simply unscrewing the two screws on the bottom of the laptop marked with [...]

The following is MY perception of Sybase’s PowerBuilder:
Years ago PowerBuilder was king.  No one could touch it.  It was relatively inexpensive.  Microsoft’s Visual Basic matured and the Pascal based Borland’s Delphi was released.  Then it fell and fall it did.
As it was falling from the throne Sybase purchased Powersoft, makers of PowerBuilder.  As the the [...]

QweryBuilder uses innovative ideas to provide developers with the ability to easily insert, extract and modify data from a variety of databases.
The goal of QweryBuilder is [...]