by Jason L Froebe on November 19, 2008, 2 comments
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 [...]
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 [...]
by Jason L Froebe on December 7, 2007, 3 comments
For those of us that use Sybase’s Replication Server, we have long ago been pacified into believing that there really isn’t much that can be done with Replication Server’s quirks but to endure them. In today’s edition of the Sybase RepServer Quirks we take a look at the “out of mutexes” error. A mutex is [...]
by Jason L Froebe on November 14, 2006, no comments
My good friend Ken Rearick wrote a rather clever little stored procedure for managing all the exceptions that are raised in the life of a Sybase Replication Server. He posted this on sybase.public.rep-server a few days ago: This is a rewriten rs_delexception script that will list out all exceptions and then step through deleting all [...]
by Jason L Froebe on August 16, 2006, 3 comments
Sybase’s Replication Server allows you to replicate data entry from one database into another (there can be more than one replicate database). They don’t necessarily have to be even from the same vendor. Duplicate rows will occur when an application inserts data into the primary and replicate database(s), if the data being entered in a [...]