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Sybase ASE 15 Cluster Edition – How to Migrate to Great

Peter Dobler — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:56:05 +0000

Overview

Back in the 90’s, a group of German engineers put together the world’s first grid computing network. When putting together this network, they used over 100 PCs running on the first version of the Linux operating system. It was…

Database Technology Roadmap 2009 And Beyond

Peter Dobler — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:13:32 +0000

There are 2 major database vendors working on their next big version of their database engines. Microsoft and Oracle are getting ready to release their best database system yet. Well, in the near future at least. Nevertheless here are some preliminary info that leaked from the development teams.

Sybase IQ – What’s New in Version 15

Peter Dobler — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:09:35 +0000

It was summer of 2000 when I first learned about Sybase IQ and its revolutionary column vector database technology. As a long time Sybase ASE and Oracle DBA I was used to database engines that organize data in a row by row method. For quite some time I had difficulties to think in column terms and not in row terms.