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Confused by SAP Sybase ASE’s new versioning system?
SAP Sybase recently changed their versioning system from 15.7 ESD 4 to 15.7 SP100, SP102 and 15.7 SP50. One would assume that since 100 is greater than 50 SP100 is newer than SP50. Not so. Not by a...
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SAP Sybase IQ 15.4 manuals fixed to work with tablet/phone PDF readers like...
Many PDF readers for smart phones (Android/iphone) and tablets manage the pdf files based solely on the Title and Author fields in the PDF file. While for this is fine for your average book, it is not...
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Howto: Export your SAP Sybase case information from case-express (Andrew...
Andrew Mumford of SAP writes: The following steps should allow you to export data from http://case-express.sybase.com/ : Log into Case-Express and select “List Cases” from the left navigation menu...
View ArticleFW Howto: List Invalid Views and fix the views in SAP Sybase IQ
From the fine folks at ARBIME: select U.user_name + ‘.’ + T.table_name from sysobject O, systab T, sysuser U where T.object_id = O.object_id and U.user_id = T.creator and O.status = 2 /* Invalid */ and...
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SAP Sybase Replication Server 15.7.1 SP100 manuals fixed to work with...
Many PDF readers for smart phones (Android/iphone) and tablets manage the pdf files based solely on the Title and Author fields in the PDF file. While for this is fine for your average book, it is not...
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SAP Sybase Control Center manuals fixed to work with tablet/phone PDF readers...
Many PDF readers for smart phones (Android/iphone) and tablets manage the pdf files based solely on the Title and Author fields in the PDF file. While for this is fine for your average book, it is not...
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SAP Sybase ASE 15.7 manuals fixed to work with tablet/phone PDF readers like...
Many PDF readers for smart phones (Android/iphone) and tablets manage the pdf files based solely on the Title and Author fields in the PDF file. While for this is fine for your average book, it is not...
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Confused on which SAP Sybase IQ index to use and why?
SAP Sybase IQ Indexes and Indexing Techniques by Mark Mumy Are you new to SAP Sybase IQ? Have you used the product but are still not clear on what indexes to use or when to use them? Have you just...
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SAP Sybase IQ 16.0 manuals fixed to work with tablet/phone PDF readers like...
Many PDF readers for smart phones (Android/iphone) and tablets manage the pdf files based solely on the Title and Author fields in the PDF file. While for this is fine for your average book, it is not...
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Sybase SQL Server 11.0.3.3 for Linux – still going strong
Last night I helped a friend at a small company install, configure and tune Sybase SQL Server 11.0.3.3 for Linux using the same method as I used on HOWTO: INSTALLING AND RUNNING SAP / SYBASE SQL SERVER...
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HOWTO: Extract Permissions from SAP Sybase IQ
Kudos to Casshern: SELECT 'grant ' + (CASE stp.selectauth WHEN 'Y' THEN 'select ' END CASE ) + ( CASE stp.deleteauth WHEN 'Y' THEN ', delete ' END CASE ) + ( CASE stp.updateauth WHEN 'Y' THEN ', update...
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HOWTO: Truncate or Backup the Transaction Log in SAP Sybase IQ Data Warehouse
SAP Sybase IQ for more than a decade has resided with an embedded SQL Anywhere instance. SQL Anywhere handles the grunt tasks of managing connections and the like while IQ does what it does best: be a...
View ArticleSAP Sybase IQ: The catalog DBSpaceID is incorrect. DBSpaceID found: 16384...
If you ever get the IQ error message The catalog DBSpaceID is incorrect. DBSpaceID found: 16384 DBSpaceID expected: 16387. This segment cannot be used. then you may have overlapping RAW partitions. I....
View ArticleSAP Sybase IQ: SQLCODE=-1010000, ODBC 3 State=”HY000″: symbolic link to RAW...
When you create an instance of IQ, you should use RAW devices for stability and performance. I recently created an instance and ran into the error SQLCODE=-1010000, ODBC 3 State=”HY000″ The file...
View ArticleHOWTO: Extract Stored Procedure Permissions from SAP Sybase IQ
SELECT 'grant execute ON ' + USER_NAME(sp.creator) + '.' + sp.proc_name + ' TO ' + USER_NAME(spp.grantee) + ';' FROM sys.sysprocedure sp, sys.sysprocperm spp WHERE sp.proc_id = spp.proc_id
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HOWTO: SAP Sybase IQ: Grant bulk copy to a user (bulk read from a client file)
We need to grant permission for the user to use readclientfile and we need to turn that option on if the application doesn’t do it itself. grant readclientfile to testuser; set option...
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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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Locking and Unlocking users in SAP Sybase IQ 15 and 16
In IQ 12.x and below, we had the sp_iqlocklogins stored procedure that we could use to quickly lock and unlock user accounts. Starting in v15 of IQ, that stored procedure was replaced with a login...
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WORKAROUND: SAP Sybase IQ 15.4 ESD 3 and IQ 16.0 SP1 – stacktrace from...
In SAP’s Sybase IQ, if you execute a query similar to the one below involving a subquery with a left, right, outer, or inner join AND an EXISTS clause, IQ will produce a stacktrace but will not close...
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How to enable disabled (by default) performance features in SAP Sybase ASE 15.x
Starting in Adaptive Server version 15.0.3 ESD #2, performance related optimizer changes are not enabled by default. Users will need to test the enhancements using specific set options. In addition,...
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