I'm new to Sybase having previously been an Informix DBA for 7 years
as well as a DBA on SQL Server.  Can anyone recommend some resources
that will enable me to get up to speed on Sybase as quickly as
possible?  I of course have all the manuals, but anything that would

I have a developer's version of ASE running on my XP box currently
at 12.5.0.1.  My question is, is it possible to upgrade from 12.5.0.1
directly to 12.5.1?  or do I have to upgrade incrementally via 12.5.0.x
first?

What is the most accurate method for calculating available free space
(for data storage, excluding available log space) within a SYBASE
12.x.x database?
I am assembling a free space threshold procedure and would like to use

 Can someone tell me ways of determining whether a table is marked for replication?

I have created a segment and exclusively allocated for a database
'test' . After that i created few objects on the segment.
Now if iam trying to drop the segment ,it's saying segment is in use.
I extended 'default' segment to that device so that all the objects

Greetings experts,
I have an sql search that requires 'OR' search on two different _fields_
eg. (Sun -- Sybase databases)
select f1, f2, ..., fn

Is it possible to change case sensitive attribute for Sybase database ?
Thanks,
Laurent

Does anyone know whether ASE 12.5 allows one to use the union operator
in a view and if not, how to get around this limiation?
Femi Anthony

This is kinda urgent, Doing evaluation first, spend later.
Anyone know a link to download any Sybase DB
for Solaris x86 ? (Eg ASA 7.0.x).
Will buy ASE 12.5 sol x86 later if Platform supports business function.

I am trying to install Sybase ASE 12.5 on RedHat Linux 7.2 but
everytime I start the 'asecfg' and configure the master device paths
and click on 'Build Server' the machine freezes. The 'lmgr' details
are correct and the system spec is in accordance with the release

We're currently experiencing deadlocks with a production application.
With the volume of transactions that we get, this behavior is not
completely unexpected. What we would like to do is trap the deadlock,
wait, and re-submit. We are having difficulty trapping the deadlock

Is there any rumors about whether Sybase Inc. is going to develop a
Requirements Management (RM) tool that will be integrated with Sybase
PowerDesigner (( something like Rational RequisitePro for Rational Rose
or Borland Together ControlCenter; or CaliberRM for Together

I can execute a stored procedure and get some rows as results.  For
example sp_spaceused returns one row with six columns, and then a row
with one column containing the stored procedure exit status.
I would like to get the rows returned by the stored procedure (though

I am using the jConnect5.5 JDBC driver and I have run into an issue
with quoted identifiers.
It seems that quoted identifiers are turned on and I don't see
anything in the API to turn them off.

I am not a Sybase admin, but I have recently taken over responsibility
for an old Sybase database running on:
Adaptive Server Enterprise/11.5.1.1/P/RS6000/AIX4.1/SWR 8509 ESD
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