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-
- Power Sites
-
- * Rob Verschoor's site (http://www.sypron.nl) is packed with useful
- information about Sybase ASE and replication, as well as a couple of
- quick-reference guides on steroids for both. Grab the ASE one from http://
- www.sypron.nl/ase_qref.html and the replication one from http://
- www.sypron.nl/rs_qref.html.
- * Eb Barlow keeps about the most complete set of references to freeware/
- public domain/shareware available for Sybase. Check out his site at http:/
- /www.edbarlow.com.
-
- Useful Documentation
-
- * The unauthorized documentation of DBCC by Al Huntley - http://user.icx.net/
- ~huntley/dbccinfo.htm
- * More DBCC's by KaleidaTech Associates, Inc. - http://www.kaleidatech.com/
- dbcc1.htm
- * Anthony Mandic's Installing Sybase on Solaris - http://www.mbay.net/
- ~mpeppler/sos/sos.html
- * John Knox has a good paper on the contents of the interfaces file at http:/
- /www.outlands.demon.co.uk
-
- Sybase Resources
-
- * Pacific Rim Network Systems Inc Sybase Resource Links http://www.alaska.net
- /~pacrim/sybase.html
- * SQL Server and Rep Server on NT http://www.xs4all.nl/~reinoud/
- ntsqlrep.html
- * Todd Boss has a host of useful stuff at http://www.bossconsulting.com/
- sybase_dba/
- * I am not sure who this site belongs to, but it contains lots of good stuff.
- http://www.rocket99.com/sybase/index.html
-
- Books, Magazines and Articles
-
- * Sybase Documentation http://sybooks.sybase.com
- * Intro to Sybase Architecture - http://www2.dgsys.com/~dcasug/sybintro/
- intro.html
- * SQL Forum http://www.sqlforum.com (sadly the technical papers that were
- there are gone).
- * Connecting Sybase to the Web - http://www.dbmsmag.com/9711i14.html
-
- Freeware/Shareware
-
- * sybinit4ever: Sybase ASE 11.5 ASCII-only server creation tool - http://
- www.sypron.nl/si4evr.html
- * Sybase Freeware and Shareware at Ed Barlow's site http://www.edbarlow.com
- * Thierry Antinolfi has a very good site packed full of useful tools and
- information at http://www.dbadevil.com
- * DBD::Sybase http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler
- * DBI/DBD:Sybase on Linux http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/dbdsybase/
- * Sybase Scheme Extensions - http://www.cs.indiana.edu/scheme-repository/
- ext.html
- * SQSH - (SQL SHell for Unix) by Scott Gray http://www.sqsh.org
- * ISUG's Freeware Collection http://www.isug.com/ISUG2/links.html
- * Sybase to HTML Converter http://www.algonet.se/~bergkarl/lasse/
- scripts_eng.html
- * Tool to access Sybase server with line editing and history recall http://
- www.mcs.net/~ivank/sybtool.html
- * Sybase connectivity libraries http://www.sybase.com/products/samples/
- * Manish I Shah's Smart Sybase Editor http://asse.sourceforge.net.
- * A web to Sybase interface http://archive.eso.org/wdb/html/
- * Al Huntley has some nifty tools as well as the DBCC list http://
- user.icx.net/~huntley/dbccinfo.htm
- * John Knox has a nifty tli2ip and ip2tli converter at http://
- www.outlands.demon.co.uk
- * A very useful project to build a free set of Open Client libraries is at
- http://www.freetds.org
- * De Clarke has some very useful SybTcl stuff, start looking at http://
- www.ucolick.org/cgi-bin/Tcl/database.cgi. One of the really nice apps is
- Sybase PerfMeter.
- * An ODBC based Windows isql type client can be found at http://
- www.indus-soft.com/winsql/ (there is a free "lite" version and a
- comercial version).
- * Imran Hussain has written a number of Sybase utilities, they can be found
- at http://www.imranweb.com/freesoft.
- * Brian Ceccarelli's BrainTools can be accessed from http://
- www.talusmusic.com/BrainTools.
- * Ginola Pascal's Like Sybase Central can be grabbed from http://
- perso.wanadoo.fr/laserquest/linux.
-
- User Groups
-
- * International Sybase User Group - http://www.isug.com
- * Indiana Sybase User's Group http://www.cs.bsu.edu/homepages/sam/isug
- * Ontario Sybase User Group (OSUG) Website - http://www.interlog.com/~osug
- * DCASUG, DC Area Sybase User Group - http://www2.dgsys.com/~dcasug
- * New Zealand Sybase User Group - http://www.nzsug.org.nz/
- * Wisconsin Sybase User Group - http://www.reveregroup.com/wisug/
- * Tampa Bay Sybase User Group - http://www.soaringeagleltd.com/LUG.htm
-
- Related FAQs
-
- * ASE on Linux FAQ - http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler/Linux-ASE-FAQ.html
- * Sybperl FAQ - http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler/Sybperl/sybperl-faq.html
- * Tuning Sybase System 11 for NetWare on Compaq -
- http://www.compaq.com/support/techpubs/whitepapers/140a0896.html
- * SQR FAQ/User Group - http://www.sqrug.com/
- * EAServer FAQ - http://www.ehandelnorden.se/sybase/faq.html/
- * BusinessObjects FAQ - http://www.upenn.edu/computing/da/bo/busob-faq.html
-
- Academia
-
- * Yale Centre for Medical Informatics http://paella.med.yale.edu/topics/
- database.html
- * NC State University http://www.acs.ncsu.edu:80/Sybase
- * Simon Fraser University http://www.cs.sfu.ca/CourseCentral/Software/Sybase
- * University of California http://www-act.ucsd.edu/webad/sybase.html
- * Rutgers http://paul.rutgers.edu/sybase.html
-
- Commercial Links
-
- The following sites are placed here without any endorsement by the FAQ
- maintainer.
-
- * Ed Barlow's site of sites http://www.tiac.net/users/sqltech/links.htm#
- commercial_links
-
- The mother ship may be reached at http://www.sybase.com
-
- next prev ASE FAQ
-
- Miscellany
-
-
-
- 12.1 What can Sybase IQ do for me?
- 12.2 Net-review of Sybase books
- 12.3 email lists
- 12.4 Finding Information at Sybase
-
- # prev ASE FAQ
-
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-
- 12.1: Sybase IQ
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- (This deserves to be a section all on its own, as per ASE and ASA. However, I
- know absolutely nothing about it. If anyone would like to help, I would be very
- grateful for some more information. My expectations are not high though.)
-
- Sybase IQ isn't meant as just an indexing scheme, per se. It is meant as a
- means of providing a low cost data warehousing solution for unplanned queries.
-
- By the way, Sybase IQ does not use bitmapped indexes, it uses bitwise indexes,
- which are quite different. [Anyone care to add a paragraph explaining the
- difference? Ed.]
-
- In data warehousing MIS generally does not know what the queries are. That also
- means that the end users often don't know what the queries are. Not knowing
- what the queries are turning end users loose on a 500GB operational database to
- perform huge queries could prove to be unacceptable (it may bring the system
- down a crawl). So, many customers are resorting to separating their operational
- databases (OLTP) and data warehousing databases. By providing this separation
- the operational database can continue about its business and the data warehouse
- users can issue blind queries without affecting the operational systems.
- Realize that operational systems may handle anywhere from hundreds to a few
- thousand users and, more likely than not, require data that is highly accurate.
- However, data warehouse users often don't require up to the second information
- and can often wait several hours, 24 hours or even days for the most current
- snapshot and generally don't require updates to be made to the data.
-
- So, Sybase IQ can be updated a few times a day, once a day or a few times a
- week. Realize that Sybase IQ is strictly a data warehousing solution. It is not
- meant for OLTP systems.
-
- Sybase IQ can also sit on top of Sybase SQL Server:
-
- [end user]
- |
- |
- [Sybase IQ]
- [Sybase SQL Server]
-
- What happens in this environment is that a data warehouse user can connect to
- Sybase IQ. Sybase IQ will then take care of processing the query or forwarding
- the query to SQL Server if it determines that the access paths in SQL Server
- are faster. An example where SQL Server will be faster than Sybase IQ in
- queries is when SQL Server can perform query coverate with the indexes built in
- SQL Server.
-
- The obvious question is: why not index every column in SQL Server? Because it
- would be prohibitive to update any of the data. Hence, Sybase IQ, where all the
- columns are making use of the bitwise index scheme. By the way, you can choose
- which columns will be part of an IQ implementation. So, you may choose to have
- only 30% of your columns as part of your Sybase IQ implementation. Again, I
- can't stress enough that Sybase IQ is strictly for data warehousing solutions,
- not OLTP solutions.
-
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-
- 12.2: Net Book Review
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- * An Introduction to Database Systems
- * Sybase
- * Sybase Architecture and Administration
- * Developing Sybase Applications
- * Sybase Developer's Guide
- * Sybase DBA Survival Guide
- * Guide to SQL Server
- * Client/Server Development with Sybase
- * Physical Database Design for Sybase SQL Server
- * Sybase Performance Tuning
- * Sybase Replication Server, An Administrators Guide
- * Optimising Transact-SQL
- * Tree and Graph Processing in SQL
- * Transact SQL
- * Sybase ASE, Database Consistency Checking
- * Configuring & Tuning Databases on the Solaris Platform
-
- An Introduction to Database Systems
-
- ISBN: 0-201-54329-X Published by Addison-Wesley. Volume I and II.
-
- This book is rightly regarded by many as the Bible of Database Management
- Systems. Not a book that goes into detailed specifics of any particular
- implementation (although it draws many examples from DB2), this book covers the
- practical theory that underlies all relational systems as well as DBMS in
- general. It is written in an easy to read, approachable style, and gives plenty
- of practical examples.
-
- Covering all aspects, from straight forward issues (such as what is a
- relational database), to practical procedures (all forms of normalization are
- covered, and explained). SQL is briefly covered, in just the right amount of
- detail. The book includes detailed discussions of issues such as recovery,
- concurrency, security and integrity, and extensions to the original relational
- model. Current issues are dealt with in detail, such as client/server systems
- and the Object Oriented model(s). Literally hundreds of references are included
- for further reading.
-
- If you want a book to refer to when your curiosity gets the better of you, or
- when a user needs a better understanding of some important database concept,
- this is it. It strikes the right balance between theory and practice, and
- should be found on every database administrators book shelf.
-
- Sybase - McGoveran and Date
-
- ISBN: 0-201-55710-X Published by Addison-Wesley. 450 pages.
-
- I think that once, not too long ago, this used to be the only book on Sybase
- available. Now it seems to be totally out of print! It covered versions of
- Sybase SQL server up to 4.8. It covered a number of aspects of Sybase,
- including APT.
-
- Sybase Architecture and Administration - Kirkwood
-
- ISBN: 0-13-100330-5 Published by Ellis Horwood. 404 pages.
-
- This is a good book covering Sybase systems up to and including System 10. It
- deals to a good depth the architecture and how most of the functions such as
- the optimiser work. It explains in a readable style how devices work, and how
- indexes are stored and manipulated.
-
- Developing Sybase Applications - Worden
-
- ISBN: 0-672-30700-6 Published by SAMS. ??? pages. (Inc CD.)
-
- This books seems very similar to number 4 to me and so I have not bought it. I
- have browsed through several times in the book shop, and decided that his other
- book covers a good deal of this. There are chapters on Visual Basic and
- Powerbuilder.
-
- Sybase Developer's Guide - Worden
-
- ISBN: 0-672-30467-8 Published by SAMS. 698 pages. (Inc disk.)
-
- This is a big book that does not, in my opinion, cover very much. In fact the
- disk that is included contains DBATools, and that seems to sum up the first 50%
- of the book. There is a fair amount of coverage of the general architecture and
- how to install Sybase. Transact SQL, cursors and stored procedures get a fair
- covering, as does using C/C++ with DB-Library. (I can find no mention of
- CT-Library.) Unfortunately quite a lot of the book covers general issues which
- are not covered in sufficient depth to be useful, and just seem to be there to
- give the book bulk. Maybe as a developer's guide, his other book would be a
- better buy. This would probably be most useful to a small company implementing
- a Sybase database.
-
- Sybase DBA Survival Guide - Jeff Garbus, David Solomon, Brian Tretter
-
- ISBN: 0-672-30651-4 Published by SAMS. 506 pages. (Inc disk.)
-
- This book is good, and is a great help in a crisis. It includes lots of useful
- ideas and strategies for most (if not all) of the DBA tasks. It covers Sybase
- SQL Server on all platforms. It does not specifically cover any of the
- Microsoft versions, and certainly not version 6. It does cover System 10. It is
- very good at explaining the output from things like the DBCC commands. There is
- also a good section on what to look for in the errorlog. If you are a DBA and
- want to buy just one book, I would recommend this one since it covers just
- about everything you will need to know. This book is filled with little hints,
- tips and warnings which are very useful. They have certainly saved my bacon on
- a number of occasions, and have even made me look a real star more than once.
-
- Guide to SQL Server - Aloke Nath
-
- ISBN: 0-201-62631-4 Published by Addison-Wesley. 567 pages.
-
- This book is solely about MS SQL Server, covering 4.2 for OS/2 and SQL Server
- NT. It is not bad, but does seem to regurgitate a lot from the Sybase [sic]
- manuals. Its coverage is fairly broad dealing with Transact SQL on the one hand
- through to client configuration on the other. It does cover the aspects of MS
- Sqlserver that are different from Sybase, (dbcc perfmon for instance) but it
- does not flag any as such. Probably a good buy if you only have MS Sqlserver
- and never intend looking at Sybase.
-
- Client/Server Development with Sybase - Alex Berson and George Anderson,
-
- ISBN: 0-07-005203-4 Published by McGraw-Hill. 743 pages.
-
- I have used this book as a reference when system manuals where not available.
- It is much more useful on how thing work and what approach to use rather than
- syntax.
-
- The breadth of topics pleased me - all the right jargon is mentioned. The
- introduction mentions CORBA and DCE. Sybase RPC is compared to UNIX RPCs.
- Middle ware products are discussed. Talks with our sales rep. about the OMNI
- and NetGateway product where greatly assisted by using the diagrams in the Open
- Server and Gateways chapter.
-
- Like any text, it is dated (as it is printed). The Netgateway diagram does not
- show a TCP/IP interface to MVS. However, the information provided is not really
- diminished. This goes back to the fact that this is a How Things Work and How
- to Use Things book, not a compilation of details on a single version.
-
- Physical Database Design for Sybase SQL - Rob Gillette, Dean Meunch, Jean
- Tabaka
-
- ISBN: 0-13-161523-8 Published by Prentice-Hall. 225 pages.
-
- Supposedly the first in a series from Sybase Professional Services, espousing
- the Sybase Development Framework or SDF (tm). I've seen no more books, and have
- never heard any more about SDF. This book is a reasonable attempt to guide
- developers through the process of turning a logical database design into a
- physical Sybase implementation.
-
- Topics include:
-
- * Defining Tables and Columns
- * Defining Keys
- * Identifying Critical Transactions
- * Adding Redundant Columns
- * Adding Derived Columns
- * Collapsing Tables
- * Splitting Tables
- * Handling Supertypes and Subtypes
- * Duplicating Parts of Tables
- * Adding Tables for derived Data
- * Handling Vector Data
- * Generating Sequence Numbers
- * Specifying Indexes
- * Maintaining Row Uniqueness
- * Handling Domain Restrictions
- * Handling Referential Integrity
- * Maintaining Derived and Redundant data
- * Handling Complex Integrity Constraints
- * Controlling Access to Data
- * Managing Object Sizes
- * Recommending Object Placement
- * Required Inputs to Physical DB Design
- * Naming Guidelines
-
- Covers System 10. Lots of good practical hints and guidelines on database
- design. In the absence of any competition - a definite recommendation for
- newcomers to Sybase database design.
-
- Sybase Performance Tuning - Shaibal Roy & Marc B. Sugiyama
-
- ISBN 0-13-442997-4 Published by Prentice Hall (http://www.prenhall.com). 622
- pages.
-
- Covers the topics:
-
- * Tuning for performance
- * Hardware and system software
- * Sybase product and feature overview
- * SQL Server - form and structure
- * SQL Server - methods and features
- * Physical database design
- * Application development
- * Monitoring SQL Server
- * Instrumenting SQL Code
- * Transaction processing performance
- * Query processing performance
- * Batch processing performance
- * Advanced topics - I/O subsystems, named caches and buffer pools and other
- enhancements
- * Also a load of extra configuration details.
-
- A pleased customer on the above book:
-
- Just a quick note to let you know of a very good book on Performance Tuning
- that isn't mentioned in the Sybase FAQ. I bought it a little while ago and
- has quickly become invaluable. It's by two pretty gifted Sybase Engineers
- in the SQL Server Performance Team and covers loads of things up to and
- including System 11. It deserves to become as big as the bible :)
-
- This I believe is the Holy Grail of Sybase books that a lot of people have
- been looking for - an exaggerated claim perhaps - but a damn fine book.
-
- Sybase Replication Server - An Administrators Guide - John Kirkwood and Garry
- Arkle
-
- ISBN 0-9537155-0-7 Published by Kirkwood Associates Ltd
-
- This is a very readable introduction and guide to Sybase replication. Having
- just installed and configured my first repserver site, this book proved very
- useful. Rather than give a whole break down of the contents, the book is
- featured on their website http://www.pagelink.demon.co.uk/ where a full
- breakdown of the contents etc can be obtained. This is one of the few books on
- replication and I can thoroughly recommend it to new users and people with a
- fair amount of replication experience. I cannot say whether or not it would be
- useful to people with a lot of replication experience since I don't know anyone
- of that ilk who has read it.
-
- Optimising Transact-SQL
-
- SQL Forum Press; ISBN: 0964981203
-
- This book is definitely not for the beginner. It covers what the author
- describes as characteristic functions. These are functions that allow you to a
- lot of data manipulation with a single pass of table. Whether you like them or
- not is completely a matter of taste. Read the reviews on Amazon.com to see the
- truth in that statement. The book pre-dates the inclusion of the CASE statement
- into most SQL dialects, including T-SQL, and it is certainly true that you can
- use the case statement to do a lot of what charactersitic functions can do.
- However, table pivoting is definitely an exception and there are probably
- others. Personally I like the book since it shows a completely different way of
- thinking about problems and their solution.
-
- Possibly tricky to get hold of.
-
- Tree and Graph Processing in SQL
-
- SQL Forum Press; ISBN: ???
-
- The only thing I have on this is the following:
-
- The best work I've ever read on the subject of Tree and Graph processing in SQL
- is strangely entitled: "Tree and Graph Processing in SQL" by Dr. David
- Rozenshtein et al.
-
- Paul Horan [TeamSybase]
-
- There are no reviews on Amazon at this time, so I cannot even send you there.
-
- Possibly tricky to get hold of.
-
- Transact SQL Programming
-
- ISBN 1-56592-401-0 Published by O'Reilly
-
- This book covers both the Sybase and Microsoft dialects of T-SQL. There is a
- very clear side-by-side comparison of the two sets of features. There is also
- an excellent description of all of the Microsoft features. I find the same is
- not so true about the Sybase parts. The actual book is up to nornal O'Reilly
- standards and is very readable.
-
- Sybase ASE, Database Consistency Checking
-
- ISBN 0-9537155-1-5 Published by Kirkwood Associates Ltd
-
- This is John Kirkwood's latest offering. The title tells all as far as subject
- matter is concerned. An excellent offering, very readable. Covers a lot of the
- undocumented dbcc's plus lots of other good stuff. I would have to say a
- definite must for all DBAs. Obviously not a book for developers, unless they
- are also part time DBAs. However, if you wanted to get a better understanding
- of how Sybase internal storeage works, this covers a lot of that.
-
- At the time of writing the book was available from Amazon.co.uk but not
- amazon.com. I am not sure if this is likely to change or not. You can always
- get it from his own site, http://www.pagelink.demon.co.uk/.
-
- Configuring & Tuning Databases on the Solaris Platform
-
- ISBN: 0-13-083417-3 Published by Sun Microsystems Press. 502 pages.
-
- An excellent book that slices and dices from both OS and database perspectives.
- Oracle, Sybase (ASE and a bit of IQ-M), Informix XPS, and DB2 are covered. The
- core subject is covered in a drill-down fashion and includes details between
- various versions (including Oracle 9i, ASE 12.5, and Solaris 2.8) The author
- also covers database architectures, application workloads, capacity planning,
- benchmarking (including the various TPC flavors), RAID (including Sun Volume
- Manager and Veritas), performance metrics, and JAVA. Even for the non-SUN
- environments this book may be quite useful.
-
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-
- 12.3: email lists
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- email lists
- +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | | | | | |
- |--------------+-------------+----------------------------------------------------+----------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
- | Name | Type | Description | Emails/Day | How to subscribe |
- |--------------+-------------+----------------------------------------------------+----------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
- | | | | | Send mail to sqsh-users-subscribe@yahoogroups.com |
- | sqsh-users | YahooGroups | Bugs/issues/complaints about sqsh - see Q9.12. | < 1 | |
- | | | | | Goto http://www.yahoogroups.com for more details. |
- |--------------+-------------+----------------------------------------------------+----------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
- | | | | | Send email to sybase-dba-subscribe@yahoogroups.com |
- | sybase-dba | YahooGroups | Discussion of administration of Sybase databases | < 1 | |
- | | | | | Goto http://www.yahoogroups.com for more details. |
- |--------------+-------------+----------------------------------------------------+----------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
- | | | | | Send email to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU |
- | | | | | |
- | SYBASE-L | Listserv | Discussion of SYBASE Products, Platforms & Usage | ~ 10 - 20 | with a subject of |
- | | | | | |
- | | | | | SUBSCRIBE SYBASE-L your name |
- |--------------+-------------+----------------------------------------------------+----------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
- | | | Exactly the same list as above, but through Yahoo. | | |
- | | | | | |
- | | | One of the nice features of having the group | | |
- | SYBASE-L | YahooGroups | mirrored at Yahoo is that it makes trawling the | ~ 10 - 20 | Send email to sybase-l-subscribe@yahoogroups.com |
- | | | archives very easy. Goto the website, there are | | |
- | | | enough links to it already on this page, feed | | |
- | | | 'sybase-l' into the search box, select the correct | | |
- | | | group and read. | | |
- |--------------+-------------+----------------------------------------------------+----------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
- | | | | | Send email to listproc@list.cren.net with a subject of |
- | Sybperl | Listserv | Discussion of things Perl and Sybase | < 1 | |
- | | | | | SUBSCRIBE SYBPERL-L your@email.address |
- |--------------+-------------+----------------------------------------------------+----------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
- | | | | | Subscribe by going to |
- | ase-linux | Majordomo | Specific discussion of Sybase on Linux | 1 - 5 | |
- | | | | | http://www.isug.com/ISUG2/ase_linux_form.html |
- +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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-
- 12.4: Finding Information at Sybase
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Sybase has now gone completely Portal or is that Postal? The front desk is
- most definitely www.sybase.com, which leads to a very polished site. A more
- useful thing to do is to sign up at the site for your own particular
- perspective. You can do this by going to my.sybase.com, where you can
- configure your account to only show you those parts of the system that you are
- interested or are relevant to you. The links below give you a couple of faster
- pointers to some specific sites.
-
- Sybase Web Sites
-
- Caveat: Sybase has implemented a portal. Quite a number of the old links that
- were/are in the FAQ now nolonger work. The following is tried and tested as of
- today (20th September 2001) but could well become out-of-date. Let's hope not!
-
- Here's a list of internet web sites at Sybase:
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- Sybase corporate (search, browse)
- This is the start of the portal. From here you can get everywhere. The
- following links simply allow for a more direct route to a few places.
- Sybase Technical Support Web site (gateway, meta-search, browse)
- Gateway to all support information at Sybase.
- Sybooks-on-the-Web (search, browse)
- Sybase Enterprise product manuals. This is the main site for product
- manuals. It's browseable and searchable.
- Technical Information Library (search, browse)
- This is the place to find all of the Answerbase content plus lots more:
- FAQs, White Papers, TechNotes, Customer Letters, Certification Reports,
- Problem Reports, Release Bulletins and much more. This is a searchable and
- browseable site.
- Infobases (search, browse)
- This link takes you directly to the solved cases area. It is searchable..
- Sybase's public news server (browse)
- Newsgroups for most Sybase products moderated by Sybase representatives.
- Savvy lurkers here.
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- Getting Sybase Software
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- There are a few types of software available from Sybase. These include
- Enterprise Emergency Bug Fixes (EBF) which are roughly equivalent to patches,
- Tools patches and upgrades, Beta software downloads,
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- Electronic Software Distribution (ESD)
- EBFs for Enterprise, Workplace and Tools products
- Free Sybase Software Downloads
- Downloadable Sybase software found here includes demos, betas and test
- drives of Sybase software.
- Sybase E-Shop
- Online ordering of Sybase software and accessories. Items ordered here will
- be ground shipped. This service is only available to customers in the US
- and Canada.
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