Re: ASE 15.7 Migration
A lot of effort has gone into testing 15.7, and as a software vendor SAP/Sybase is doing its utmost to make sure there are no negative upgrade issues. But you should always run your own tests if your...
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Hi Javier, In addition to Rob's comment about CE benefitting from the threaded kernel, specifically on your platform, the CIPC service task ran on engine 0 in pre-15.7. With the new kernel, it runs as...
View ArticleRe: Getting access to internal VPN site (aka. Access Anywhere)
Dear Andrew, I will try to help you , I have sent you an email requesting some additional information to move forward on this, please check your inbox.
View ArticleRe: newsgroup here now?
Yeah, this is one of the replacement forums for the NNTP/forums.sybase.com site. This particular forum is geared towards folks using ASE as a standalone product (basically everyone using ASE for...
View ArticleRe: Getting data via ODBC gets truncated when exceeding the TextSize length
Hello, Which is the varsion of the ODBC driver and of ASE server you are connecting? Normally I think setting the TextSize in the connection string should be enough. Best regards, Kimon
View ArticleRe: Getting data via ODBC gets truncated when exceeding the TextSize length
Hi, What error are you running into when using > 160k?The max for textsize should be 2147483647. What does your connectionstring look like when setting textsize?As Kimon pointed out, the version for...
View ArticleRe: ASE 15.7 Migration
Thanks Rob / Mark, I´m preparing a presentation based on SAP´s K21 Paper in order to show them the benefits of 15.7. The only problem that we have it was with sp_sysmon and 'enable monitoring' on....
View ArticleRe: update statistics questions
WRT 3: (how to make update stats progress faster): It depends of course on what resources are available to your database server. Update stats is both CPU intensive as well as Disk IO intensive. So,...
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WRT to question 2, you can use optdiag to extract the existing statistics, edit the file (adding statistics for a column) and then import the edited statistics. The effect is essentially the same as...
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..just an FYI, but if using 'with print_progress = 1' as suggested by Rob you may see mentions of tablescans being used to gather the non-lead indexed column stats (when not using hash based stats...
View ArticleRe: ASE 15.7 Migration
Hi Javier, we are running 8 productive ASE 15.7-servers spread over the world, 6 of them with ESD#2 and 2 with ESD#3.1. The sizes are about 300 GB / server. The sum of the runtimes is about 30 months....
View ArticleRe: rollback question
rob/bret, thanks for the response. i will come back to you about your first two posts as i still think i have things to nitpick with. but with regards 'kill <spid> with status only', how accurate...
View ArticleRe: rollback question
The estimate printed by "kill... with statusonly" may indeed not be accurate. It is difficult to accurately predict how long a rollback will take, some of the reasons have been mentioned above. As it...
View ArticleRe: Physical/Logical Read Duration
Those 128 physical reads were not necessarily done sequentially. They may have been spread all over the place. Without the query plan we cannot tell. The first thing to do here is to get the query plan...
View ArticleRe: rollback question
I am hearing similar comments from other SCN members where thei posts or replies can be stuck for many days before they appear. I do not have that problem myself, but others certainly do. Could the...
View ArticleRe: Physical/Logical Read Duration
Following up on Rob's comment about other reasons for the query taking longer ... try querying monProcessWaits before and after executing your proc, taking the deltas to get total wait times for the...
View ArticleRe: Physical/Logical Read Duration
Actually, I have a utility that queries monProcessWaits on a short interval (3 seconds), saves the delta for each application process and lists out the processes with > .5 seconds wait time in the...
View ArticleRe: Getting data via ODBC gets truncated when exceeding the TextSize length
Hi,Thanks for the answer.ASE server version is 15.7.ODBC driver version is 15.07.00.104. There are two problems in setting the textSize property:1. I cannot get it to work with value over 160K. So, i...
View ArticleRe: newsgroup here now?
Sybase nntp newsgroup at forums.sybase.com were shutdown at the end of March this year. The read-only format of the archive that Mark points out is NOT searchable, so is nearly useless. I'd advise...
View ArticleRe: Use MDA to list unused indexes
Hi Rob, This is your query indeed ;-). BTW Your website sypron.nl is extremely useful! I am using the version: Adaptive Server Enterprise/15.5/EBF 20632 SMP ESD#5.2/P/Sun_svr4/OS...
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