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

I was trying to install Oracle 11g client on to a WinXP box but Symantec Antivirus wouldn’t let me because it thought it was infected with over 800 viruses.  Same file was marked clean on another box.  So, I picked several of the viruses it said was infected with and looked for any evidence of [...]

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 [...]

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 releases:
Testing the [...]