WordPress, MySQL and a bit of corruption caused the tags & categories to...
Sometime early this afternoon, the categories & tags of my blog disappeared. After a little bit of investigation (I was working quite heavily at the time), I discovered that the wp_term_taxonomy...
View ArticleThe first issue of “My Databases” coming next week!
As many of you know, I’ve been working on a free magazine regarding various database systems (dbms) called My Databases. I hope to have multiple authors in future issues covering all sorts of open...
View ArticleMulticore processors and Sybase ASE: Jeff Tallman
When T V S Murty asked on the sybase-l mailing list about Sybase ASE, multicores and Sybase licensing, the discussion quickly drilled down to whether or not multicores were beneficial to Sybase ASE and...
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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:...
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What is with the ISUG Enhancements versus Sybase CR/Bugs on the...
In the MSA and System transactions performedby maint user thread on the sybase-product-futures mailing list, Jeff Tallman mentions that someone needs to create an ISUG enhancement or a Sybase change...
View ArticleShould ORMs Insulate Developers from SQL?
I’ve been sick the past few days, so I have been hitting the “Stumble” button a lot on my laptop. Last night I ran across a very interesting blog post by Daniel Spiewak on his Code Commit blog: This is...
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Looking for a *FREE* Sybase SQL Server Database for Production, Development,...
UPDATE 4/10/2013: SAP/Sybase has made it known that they will not be distributing Sybase SQL Server 11.0.3.3 for Linux. So, if you still need it, you will need to look elsewhere. If you need to ask...
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FW: Oracle 10g+ Security and Audit – Part 1
Over at the Database Geek Blog, Lewis Cunningham has provided the first of three blog posts on Oracle Security. The first post is well done IMHO: Oracle 10g+ Security and Audit – Part 1 This is a...
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Andrew E. Bruno: Database Design with Dia
Back in December of 2007, Andrew E. Bruno wrote an excellent article on how to use the open source program Dia to design databases. He used the resultant design to create a MySQL database but the same...
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Get your Sybase ASE 15.5 MDA table posters! Straight from Sybase’s Jeff Tallman
I asked Jeff Tallman if I could redistribute his excellent MDA posters for Sybase’s ASE 15.5 database server. He said yes so … here they are in both Adobe PDF and Sybase PowerDesigner PDM formats!...
View ArticleHow to: How to copy an Oracle tablespace across platforms – quick and dirty ;-)
On the source machine: Set the tablespace(s) into read only mode Alter tablespace <tablespace> read only Export the tablespace meta data using export expdp system/<password>...
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How to install PostgreSQL 9 on Ubuntu Linux 10.04/10.10
Very easy, just add a repository and run apt-get install postresql-9.0 Dctr Watson explains how: Installing PostgreSQL 9.0 on Ubuntu 10.04
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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Optimizing the Firefox (SQLite databases)
Most people that want to speed up Firefox know about the various settings in about:config but many forget that Firefox uses SQLite databases that can become cluttered. In your home directory ($HOME on...
View ArticleSybase ASE: A simple way to let users restore a database using a stored...
I wrote this simple method to restore a database using a stored procedure. This allows for a user to restore a database with no knowledge of the dump/load commands. Related: Sybase ASE: A simple way to...
View ArticleSybase ASE: A simple way to let a user backup a database using a stored...
I wrote this simple method to backup a database using a stored procedure. This allows for a user to restore a database with no knowledge of the dump/load commands. Related to Sybase ASE: A simple way...
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FW: William Blunn’s DBIX::MULTIROW – UPDATING MULTIPLE DATABASE ROWS QUICKLY...
William Blunn wrote a good article on DBIx::MultiRow. A requirement arises in many systems to update multiple SQL database rows. For small numbers of rows requiring updates, it can be adequate to use...
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Connect to Microsoft SQL Server (including Azure instances) from Linux...
Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server from Linux can be done through two different methods: ODBC and JDBC. Unfortunately, FreeTDS doesn’t connect to the newest versions of SQL Server unless you want to...
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FW: Hardening the Oracle 11g Database – Initial Steps (Kevin Sheehan)
Kevin Sheehan wrote how to harden the Oracle 11g RDBMS. I highly recommend it: The following is a basic set of hardening guidelines for an Oracle 11g database along with some scripts you may find...
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HOWTO: List users that perform os authentication to log into the Oracle...
Oracle will require you to configure the Oracle RDBMS to use operating system authentication but if you inherit an Oracle instance, you will want to disable os authentication when possible. When the...
View ArticleStacktrace can be produced when the log of a database is completely full
It is understood that the transaction log filled up but that shouldn’t cause a stacktrace to be produced. Whenever a stacktrace is produced, people can get a bit excited about it. (not good) sequence...
View ArticleHOWTO: Compressing text in a database while keeping it searchable with Perl...
I’m archiving our Sybase ASE MDA tables into a central repository but we do run into space issues from time to time with the stored queries from master…monSysSQLText and master..monProcessSQLText. The...
View ArticleHOWTO: Fix Sybase ASE: 17283 error when trying to extend a database segment
Did you ever receive the error 17283 “Procedure ‘sp_extendsegment’, Line 182 ‘tempdev1′ is reserved exclusively as a log device.” error? You can get the 17283 error when there is a device fragment that...
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Need a larger master device with Sybase ASE?
For those of you that may not know, you can use the supported method to increase the size of any Sybase ASE database device starting with ASE 12.5.0.1. Obviously, you will need to ensure that the...
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ERROR: SQLite database is malformed – SOLVED
Every once in a while if you’re making heavy use of a SQLite database, as with any other DBMS, it will become corrupted. Usually this is due to bugs within the DBMS itself and sometimes hardware...
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