Ed Barlow Procedures: sp__monusedtables updated for SAP Sybase ASE 15 and higher
Back in 2006, Mich Talebzadeh created the sp__monusedtables stored procedure for reporting on table usage in Sybase ASE 12.5x using the MDA tables as part of the excellent Extended Stored Procedures by...
View ArticleEd Barlow Procedures: sp__groupprotect updated to show the group name...
Ed Barlow created the sp__groupprotect stored procedure for reporting group permissions in Sybase ASE as part of the excellent Extended Stored Procedures by Ed Barlow (AKA the Ed Barlow Stored...
View ArticleEd 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...
View ArticleEd Barlow Stored Procedures: sp__monwaits updated with formatting for SAP...
Ed Barlow created the sp__monwaits stored procedure for displaying the wait times since server start in Sybase ASE as part of the excellent Extended Stored Procedures by Ed Barlow (AKA the Ed Barlow...
View ArticleEd 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...
View ArticleEd 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)....
View ArticleHOWTO: Building Perl Module DBD::Sybase 1.15 for ActiveState Perl (Windows...
We no longer are tied to using Microsoft’s Visual C++ compiler for building Michael Peppler’s Perl Module DBD::Sybase 1.15 for ActiveState Perl (Windows 32bit)! We need to make a few changes to SAP...
View ArticleEd 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...
View ArticleEd Barlow stored procedures: sp__indexspace updated for large tables on SAP...
Ed Barlow created the sp__indexspace stored procedure for reporting on index usage in Sybase ASE as part of the excellent Extended Stored Procedures by Ed Barlow (AKA the Ed Barlow Stored Procedures)....
View ArticleEd Barlow Stored Procedures: sp__helpprotect updated for SAP Sybase ASE 15...
Ed Barlow created the sp__helpprotect stored procedure for extracting permissions in Sybase ASE as part of the excellent Extended Stored Procedures by Ed Barlow (AKA the Ed Barlow Stored Procedures)....
View ArticleSAP Sybase ASE MDA Tables: Why is the OwnerName and OwnerID omitted in most...
If you look at the MDA poster, you will find the object names, the database names and the like but not the owner_id or owner_name. Let’s pick on monOpenObjectActivity, one of the most heavily used mda...
View ArticleIf you’re an author of technical books, please ensure that your publisher...
If you’re an author of technical books, please ensure that your publisher and/or editor typesets your book contents to be readable. Especially tables and program outputs. Just because the application...
View ArticleSAP Sybase IQ: Free “Getting started with SAP Sybase IQ server” mini course!
SAP Sybase has recently made available a mini course called “Getting started with SAP Sybase IQ server” for you to learn IQ, a major data warehouse product. Do yourself a favor and learn IQ. There...
View ArticleHOWTO: Install SAP Sybase Control Center 3.2.7 on Windows 8
SAP/Sybase doesn’t officially support running SCC on Windows 8. This seems to be more of an issue with the InstallShield installer. Seriously, why do people still use InstallShield?? If you try...
View ArticleSybase ASE: Adding log to a completely log full database – errors 1105 and...
When a sybase database’s log is completely full, you won’t be able to add any log space to it. Attempting to add to the log produces a 3475 error: 00:0006:00000:00001:2014/01/08 09:03:09.09 server...
View ArticleHow to Add logins/users to SAP Sybase IQ and copy the password from another...
You will need to create one or more application groups. In the below example we create the mygroup group: sp_iqaddlogin "mygroup", null; GRANT CONNECT TO "mygroup"; GRANT GROUP TO "mygroup"; After that...
View ArticleSAP Sybase IQ SA CR 728597 / Linux Kernel direct i/o bug & huge pages
Last year, April -> October, I asked the question about IQ supporting Huge Pages on Linux. It was mentioned that under SA CR 728597 and Red Hat Bug 891857 that there was a bug in the Linux kernel...
View ArticleSAP 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...
View ArticleSAP Sybase IQ – dbcc for IQ? Yes! Just use sp_iqcheckdb
If you’re coming from Microsoft SQL Server or Sybase ASE, SAP’s IQ doesn’t have the slew of dbcc commands you might expect. It rolls up all the pertinent dbccs into a single stored procedure....
View ArticlePreliminary REVIEW: SAP’s HANA – In memory database with local/remote data...
Recently I attended a quite well done presentation regarding SAP’s HANA data storage product and scoured the various websites mentioning HANA. I’m not going to go over the that as all that information...
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