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Sybase ASE bug 428591 causing outages
report from user: Did some extensive testing… problem appears to be with the sybase userid. I connected via SQL Programmer to DSN=MY_SERVER;SRVR=MY_SERVER;DB=MY_DB;UID=XXXXXX;PASSWORD=XXXXXX; then...
View ArticleSybase ASE: reorg ‘with time’ and resume explained
When we perform the reorg with the “with time=30″, the reorg will run for 30 minutes and then stop – no notification is performed (this would be an incomplete reorg). This can become a problem: week...
View Articlelogrotate: how to use with Sybase ASE
In most Linux distributions, a utility called logrotate is installed by default. Logrotate does just what the name implies: it will rotate the logs of your desired application. Rotating a log means,...
View ArticleUpdate on the missing Podcast: Art of ASE Performance & Tuning
Over on the ISUG forums, I asked Stefan Karlsson whether the Art of ASE Performance & Tuning podcast was abandoned as there hasn’t been a new episode since July 2007. Stefan has been busy with...
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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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FW (David Wein): Looking for feedback: logical process manager
David Wein is a well known and highly respected engineer at Sybase working on Adaptive Server Enterprise. I’m reposting his blog article here to help increase the exposure of his request for comments:...
View ArticleHOWTO: Install SAP Sybase ASE 15.x and Linux Containers (LXC) – Ubuntu Server...
Requirements: Host OS: Ubuntu Server 13.04 x86-64 (64bit) At least 4GB RAM 300GB available disk space Sybase Patches: If you’re going to run 32bit SQL Anywhere (or an embedded RSSD with Replication...
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Commentary on Simon Ogden’s Out of range histogram adjustments
Simon Ogden recently wrote up an excellent post regarding Out of Range Histogram Adjustments. While he explains in detail how the out of range selectivity is computed, I think we can make it a little...
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Ed Barlow Procedures: sp__montableusage updated for SAP Sybase ASE 15 and higher
Back in 2006, Mich Talebzadeh created the sp__montableusage stored procedure for reporting on table and index usage based on the MDA tables in Sybase ASE 12.5x using the MDA tables as part of the...
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Ed Barlow Stored Procedures: sp__monunusedindex updated with formatting,...
Ed Barlow created the sp__monunusedindex stored procedure for displaying the indexes that have not been used since server start in Sybase ASE as part of the excellent Extended Stored Procedures by Ed...
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Ed Barlow Stored Procedures: sp__monrunning updated with formatting for SAP...
Mich Talebzadeh created the sp__monrunning stored procedure for displaying the procedures that are running for more than 100 ms as part of the excellent Extended Stored Procedures by Ed Barlow (AKA the...
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Ed Barlow Stored Procedures: sp__monobj Updated with formatting for SAP...
Ed Barlow created the sp__monobj uses a heuristic algorithm to find which objects are most busy as part of the excellent Extended Stored Procedures by Ed Barlow (AKA the Ed Barlow Stored Procedures)....
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SAP Sybase ASE 15.7: Unquiesce / quiesce not working
Typically there is a set of systems that are flashed from one system to another. The basic operation is: quiesce the databases in the source Sybase ASE instance, make a copy of the disk volume groups...
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SAP Sybase ASE: Unable to start ASE when getting “No unlocked logins with...
Have you received the error “No unlocked logins with permission ‘…’ were found” when attempting to start ASE? 00:0002:00000:00001:2014/03/14 08:51:04.87 server Database 'master' is now online. server...
View ArticleSAP Sybase ASE Unable to shutdown with there are not enough ‘user...
If you’re trying to shutdown ASE and you’re not able to log in to the ASE instance, you can shutdown the instance with “kill -15 ” on Linux/Unix: server Error: 1601, Severity: 17, State: 3 server There...
View ArticleDrew Montgomery’s sp__dbsubspace for SAP Sybase ASE space usage
A few years back we were both working at a company that needed a method to obtain Sybase ASE database space usage every few minutes. The output of Ed Barlow’s sp__dbspace was fine but it was an...
View ArticleA fast method of getting space utilization: sp__quickdbspace for SAP Sybase ASE
The sp__quickdbspace procedure relies on accurate metrics provided by free space accounting and/or dbcc checkalloc/tablealloc. It shouldn’t be relied upon on for exact space usage. Much of the code...
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