Tag Archive: TeamSybase
Jason L. Froebe, TeamSybase, ISUG Board Member, and MyDatabases magazine publisher, demonstrates the Tim Tam Slam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_tam_slam
Please comment on the singers’ names please 
YMCA
Living on a Prayer
The Lion Sleeps Tonight (part 1)
The Lion Sleeps Tonight (part 2)
Love Shack
??? and Christine Weber
Mack the Knife
Thunder Road
Eric Van Patten and Millard F. Brown III
Copacabana
Nina Hunter
Material Girl
(left to right) Christine Weber, Katherine Soong, and Nina Hunter. A surprise appearance by Phil Bowermaster!
Come Together
Phil Bowermaster
Over on the sybase-l mailing list, I
let a troll cloud my good sense for a few minutes. As an ISUG board member and a member of TeamSybase and as an adult, I must not allow myself to be baited so. Please forgive me for losing my cool.
All in all, I’ve had a better weekend than Jeff Simmermon over at andiamnotlying.com – pouring espresso on ice is a bad thing according to some coffee shops. *shakes head*
Knowing the internals of Sybase ASE not always helpful
There are many former Sybase employees that retain the knowledge of the Sybase ASE internals. No, not the internals from the Data Internals class but the source code and design documents. While we gave up the physical materials when we left Sybase, we still retain much of it in our brains. Technically, we aren’t supposed to use that knowledge but it is very very difficult not to.
Think about this scenerio:
As you can see, using the internal/proprietary information inside your head is hard to avoid. Granted, ProActive DBA allows you to patch the individual pages, but they apparently have permission to do so — or at least Sybase is looking the other way.
If you know about SybMon and know how to use it, it is nearly impossible not to use it if your Sybase ASE server is hung and you can’t log into it.
If you fix a server using an unsupported method and report it to Sybase, there is a chance that they will not look favorably on your solution. So, do you report the problem to them and your solution in the hope that they fix the problem or do you just keep it to yourself?
Harder yet, is how to explain to your boss that you can’t tell them how you fixed the problem because you’re still under a non-disclosure agreement with Sybase. You might be able to explain the situation to your boss but if he pushes for the information and you refuse, you might be out of a job. Luckily my boss is happy to have me and doesn’t push the issue.