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Free Sybase Power Designer 15 Viewer!

If you ever receive a Sybase Power Designer file (such as the pdm file from Jeff Tallman) but you don’t want to either purchase or install the full blown Power Designer, then I have an answer for you.  It is the Power Designer Viewer from Sybase.
While it is free, you have to fill out a [...]

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.

Sybase’s Jeff Tallman releases the MDA table diagram posters for ASE 15.0.3 in PDF and PowerDesigner formats!

Jeff Tallman has released the MDA table diagram posters for ASE 15.0.3 in both Adobe PDF and PowerDesigner PDM formats.
Thanks Jeff for creating them!

ISUG Technical Journal Sep/Oct 2008 is out! Includes my “Perl in the Shell” article

The ISUG Technical Journal Sep/Oct 2008 is out.
This issue contains:

Sybase IQ and Sybase WorkSpace Part II By Mike Crocker
Perl in the shell By Jason Froebe
Taming the process nightmare: Consolidating a Horde of Process Diagrams with PowerDesigner By Mike Nicewarner
Information overload: Weapons-grade data analysis comes of age By Teresa Foster
Maximizing PowerBuilder and SQLAnywhere Part III SQLAnywhere, [...]

Native support of SQLite in Sybase PowerBuilder and PowerDesigner?

What I would love to see is native support for SQLite. http://www.sqlite.org
It is the most installed embedded database on the planet hands down.  Don’t believe me?  You know that Firefox web browser, Thunderbird newsreader, most Adobe products, Miro, etc all have it embedded?  – reference http://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html
We use it extensively at work as:

staging for mass data [...]