Welcome,
I'm using:
Adaptive Server Enterprise/12.5.0.3/EBF 10696 IR/P/Linux Intel/Linux
2.4.7-10smp i686/rel12503/1915/32-bit/OPT/

Does anyone know if you can call a DB2 stored proc on a mainframe from
a Sybase 11 stored proc on a Windows 2000 Server?
Thanks in advance,
G

Everywhere I've worked as a Sybase DBA, there was the monthly shutdown
and restart of the Sybase server. Some places did it weekly.
I've been chasing around to find out the reason why this is done.  It
is just tradition?  Or is there a valid technical reason such as the

hi buddy,
I am planning to take sybase certification test, anybody knows where can I
get test materials?

I've got some trouble with image column under sybase 11.9.x and dblib
I have : create table test(id int, blob IMAGE);
and INSERT INTO test VALUES(1, NULL);
First, if I try to write blob column with dbwritetext

Where I work, we're being "forced" (because of hardware issues) to
upgrade our databases from old unsupported NT servers running
Microsoft SQL Server 7.  Some people I work with want to go to SQL
Server 2000 then 2005 when it comes out.  I'd prefer that we go the

(windows) I download sybperl module, but can not compile(using bc 5.2), it
seems like makefile has some errors
error makefile 137:colon expected
fatal makefile 762: no terminator specified for in-line file operator

Can anyone point me at an independent review of the Sybase IQ product?
How it works, advantages and disadvantages, equivalent products, etc.
By independent I naturally mean *not* produced by the Sybase marketing dept.
Tom.

We have multiple database servers running on one machine, is there any
way for a client program not running on the local network to find the
port address of a database so it can connect to it ? At the moment I
have no problem connecting to the database that runs on the default

The only tasks that I can come up with that require that the user sign
on to the operating systems are:
1) installing the Sybase software and updating/upgrading it.
2) starting the database and backup servers

In SQL Server and Sybase how exactly Server login, Database login
work?  what is the different?

Is it possible to convert an int field to datetime?
In one of our Sybase ASE DB there is a field called "time" of type int, and
it contains the
value 1093409123. In the application it looks like this is converted to

We are looking for beta-testers for our new product - Scribe Report
Generator. At this moment, Scribe supports 6 relational databases, including
Oracle, MS SQL Server 2000, and Sybase.
Very briefly: Scribe is written in Java, is based on visual programming and

I'm using Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise Edition ( ver 12.5.0.3 ).
I have a big query that fetches about 128,000 records. Our application's JVM is
not good enough ( with default value of 64 M) to hold these many records ( that
are retrieved from the DB ) to overcome this problem ...

I have procedure code something like the following.
  update t
  set ...
  where k = @k