Trying to upgrade ASE 64 bit from 12.5.2 to 15.0 on Solaris 5.8. I'm
getting the following error when I try to start the server (the upgrade
didn't complete because, presumably, it got the same error):
ld.so.1: /sybase_misc/storage/sybase15.0/ASE-15_0/bin/dataserver:

Is there a simple way of upgrading a 12.5.0.3 SQL server to 12.5.3?
All I can find are ways to make a brand new binary installation and
migrate to that
one.

I inserted a big database 'benchdb' into de sybase server:
When issueing a bunch of read statements i got this error:
"Space available in the log segment has fallen critically low in database
'BASE01_TMP1'. All future modifications to this database will be suspended

If I call :
select show_role()
for a user which is a user alias of another user with sa_role, I get
NULL, although it has of course sa_role.

My name is W. Curtis Preston, and I'm the author of "Backup & Recovery"
(formerly "Unix Backup & Recovery") from O'Reilly & Associates.
(http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unixbr/ )
Someone has updated the Sybase backup and recovery chapter for me.  The

Is it possible to check if a specified grant is set for a user.
For example, I would want to check if the user A can do a "truncate" on
a table, before doing the truncate and getting an error.
Thanks.

I'm testing external access purposes and have discovered that on a fresh
linux installation (ubuntu, suse enterprise 9.0 & gentoo 2.6)
Installation of Sybase (ASE1500-DE) worked fine on all platforms, but only
on ubuntu i can get remote access to the databases.

    I have several production servers where I have to rename the
sybase instance(long story). Some on windows and some on unix.
What would be the cleanest way to rename the servers?
I'm thinking that I could bcp out the syslogins, sysloginroles,

is there any 64bit Client software from Sybase? I need OLEDB/ODB
access from a Windows 2003 x64 server to a Sybase server...
Thanks,
Thoma

I just scripted a report, that for most intents and purposes works, but I
want it to run daily, not need any intervention from me on a daily basis,
and instead of grabbing the most recent 24 hours of data, just grab data
between midnight and midnight.  if you could help me with ...

i would like to transpose a table (3 columns, 100 rows) to (30 columns
, 100 rows)  i.e:
ID       kw_name       kw_value
1           NAME           a1

I just returned from a Sybase class and installed the Sybase Central
copy that was lying around. I wanted to use Interactive SQL with Sybase
Central as I had done in class. But the only option seems to be SQL
Advantage. How can I bring in the interactive SQL capabilities to SC

I have got this problem that I'm not able to solve
I've a table with this kind of data
Date            Amount
01/03/2006  10

Dear experts,
We are using:
Adaptive Server Enterprise/12.5.3/EBF 12868 ESD#4/P/Sun_svr4/OS
5.8/ase1253/1923/32-bit/FBO/Thu Sep  8 14:14:28 2005

Hi, all
Can someone confirm with me that ASE 11.9.2 doesn't support
alter table modify <column> <new_datatype>
I saw this command on Sybooks website, however it's in 12.0 version