New developers for Sybase’s Powerbuilder 11?
There still seems to be a steep learning curve when it comes to Sybase’s PowerBuilder. In this specific case, PB11 is no easier. What *I* personally would like to see is: step by step online tutorials...
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Installing Windows Vista Service Pack 1
If you’re running Microsoft’s Vista os on your computer, you’ve probably noticed that the ‘updates available’ icon has shown up this morning on your task bar. Very likely, clicking on the icon will...
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Flourish 2008 Conference Roundup
This year’s Flourish Conference was held at the University of Illinois in downtown Chicago (UIC). The Flourish web site describes Flourish as: The goal of the Flourish Conference is to promote the use...
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Could it be true? Microsoft’s national technology officer concedes to Open...
I never thought I would live to see the day, but it looks like Microsoft is ‘bending knee’ to the consumer… Microsoft’s national technology officer, Stuart McKee, concedes to the victor: …. “ODF has...
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Native support of SQLite in Sybase PowerBuilder and PowerDesigner?
What I would love to see is native support for SQLite. http://www.sqlite.org It is the most installed embedded database on the planet hands down. Don’t believe me? You know that Firefox web browser,...
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Anybody running VMware’s VMotion in production?
Don’t know what VMware VMotion is? VMotion allows you to easily move one virtual machine to another VMware ESX host that is connected to the same storage mechanism (presumably SAN) with no downtime....
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Woohoo! Looks like Evolution will be able to connect to Microsoft Exchange...
Pedro Villavicencio over at Ubuntu says: upstream said the bug is fixed with evolution 2.24, could you please comment on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375727 if you still get the issue or...
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Oops! I spoke too soon! Exchange Plugin 2.24.2 still broken for Evolution
Back on November 5th, I reported that in my blog post Woohoo! Looks like Evolution will be able to connect to Microsoft Exchange again! that the Exchange plugin for Evolution was fixed. Well, they...
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Calling Sybase developers! Please help fix the Sybase and Microsoft driver...
While the CakePHP framework is very good, the dbo “driver” (wrapper) between CakePHP and the PHP Sybase/Microsoft drivers ar not implemented to be actually usable. Most of the issues are differences...
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Introducing QweryBuilder, a Developer GUI for Sybase ASE, SQL Anywhere,...
QweryBuilder uses innovative ideas to provide developers with the ability to easily insert, extract and modify data from a variety of databases. The goal of QweryBuilder is to increase a database...
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Sybase’s PowerBuilder v12 is powerful, .NET based, and wonderful! Why you...
The following is MY perception of Sybase’s PowerBuilder: Years ago PowerBuilder was king. No one could touch it. It was relatively inexpensive. Microsoft’s Visual Basic matured and the Pascal based...
View ArticleHow to convert a laptop running Microsoft Windows 7 to a VirtualBox virtual...
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....
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Get it here! Perl DBD::Sybase 1.09 for Active State Perl 5.10 on Windows...
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...
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Get it here! Perl DBD::Sybase 1.09.01 for Active State Perl 5.10 and 5.8 on...
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...
View ArticleWanted: Microsoft SQL Server DBA (Chicago, IL)
Position Responsibilities Provides DBA services for Production, test, and development databases Administers and maintains the production, test, and development databases. Performs SQL code releases...
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Unable to edit your site using Sharepoint Designer 2007 or 2010 through...
Have you ever been working in your SharePoint site and need to edit a list or a document so you go to “Edit List in SharePoint Designer” and you get a pop up asking you to install SharePoint 2007 or...
View ArticleHowTo: Comparing two tables and returning the # of rows that match FAST
The most intuitive way to write a comparison of two tables and spit out the # of rows that are the same involves a left join: select 'Investment' as TableName, count(*) as RowCount from Investment_A a,...
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HOWTO: Building Perl module DBD::Sybase 1.14 on Windows (32bit or 64bit) with...
Compiling the DBD::Sybase Perl module really requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 or higher. To get started open the “Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt”. You will need to fix the Makefile.PL file: if (...
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HOWTO: Building Perl Module DBD::Sybase 1.15 for ActiveState Perl (Windows...
We no longer are tied to using Microsoft’s Visual C++ compiler for building Michael Peppler’s Perl Module DBD::Sybase 1.15 for ActiveState Perl (Windows 32bit)! We need to make a few changes to SAP...
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SAP Sybase IQ – dbcc for IQ? Yes! Just use sp_iqcheckdb
If you’re coming from Microsoft SQL Server or Sybase ASE, SAP’s IQ doesn’t have the slew of dbcc commands you might expect. It rolls up all the pertinent dbccs into a single stored procedure....
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