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

Tips & Tricks for Databases (Sybase, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite), Windows, Linux, Solaris, Perl, Java, Bash and so much much more

How to disable the “uninstall password” to uninstall Symantec Antivirus

by Jason L Froebe on March 10, 2010, 6 comments

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 [...]

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Get it here! Perl DBD::Sybase 1.09.01 for Active State Perl 5.10 and 5.8 on Windows XP/Vista/7 32bit

by Jason L Froebe on March 9, 2010, 10 comments

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 [...]

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Get it here! Perl DBD::Sybase 1.09 for Active State Perl 5.10 on Windows XP/Vista/7 32bit

by Jason L Froebe on February 17, 2010, 6 comments

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 [...]

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Started reading “Foundations of Qt Development”

by Jason L Froebe on January 19, 2010, no comments

When I purchased Foundations of Qt Development (Expert’s Voice in Open Source) by Johan Thelin a few months back, I hoped to get to it right away but work and life diverted my attention. Today at lunch I dived into it. Even though I’m still going through chapter 1, I think I can give a [...]

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Sybase Workspace 2.1: Do NOT update Data Tools Platform (DTP) from Eclipse’s website!

by Jason L Froebe on March 19, 2009, 2 comments

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 [...]

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