About SAP NOTE# 2113333
SAP release note#2113333 said "An authenticated user can exploit specific commands in SAP ASE to elevate the user's privileges in the system"The CVSS score: 8.5 is vary high. Any idea about what kind...
View Articletuning vxfs on Linux for Sybase ASE 15.7
Hi Due to some requirements for storage encryption, we have to move from raw devices to vxfs filesystems for Sybase devicesStorage is SAN based, operating system: RedHat Enterprise Linux with 2.6...
View ArticleRe: About SAP NOTE# 2113333
The note says:An authenticated user can create special strings which manipulate the SQL statement being executed to elevate attacker's privileges in the system. The problem is caused by a SQL injection...
View ArticleRe: How is SAP ASE doing?
> I beleive its because SAP aggressively is marketing to sell HANA first and make it 'the norm' for SAP > applications round the globe Are you saying that HANA will be SAP's prefered...
View ArticleRe: How is SAP ASE doing?
I am from an SAP ERP background so my comments are very specific to that use case. Looking at your response, it appears you want to know about Sybase as a 'database' and not about as a...
View ArticleUnderstanding/reading set option show_* on
We have a bad query plan on a query which I can't see why its been chosen.Its doing table reformatting which we can solve with a set store_index off.The indexes have been reorg-ed and the stats are...
View ArticleRe: Understanding/reading set option show_* on
Hi Mike, Before investigating that output, please check below. 1.Are they have composite indexes? If so, how did you update their statistics? update index statistics or update statistics? For ASE...
View ArticleRe: tuning vxfs on Linux for Sybase ASE 15.7
Hi Jeroen, Please refer SAP note 1680803.It includes Best_Practises_SAP_ASE.pdf file and you can find some recommendation. 1680803 - SYB: Migration to SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise - Best Practice...
View ArticleRe: Understanding/reading set option show_* on
> 1.Are they have composite indexes?> If so, how did you update their statistics?> update index statistics or update statistics?> For ASE 15.7 you have to use 'update index statistics'...
View ArticleRe: ASE HA support
Hello Christopher,We are still working in progress on the certification reports being available externally. However to help you at the moment, can you please let me know what versions you are...
View ArticleSybase-ASE-16.0.6 on RHEL 7
I was trying to figure out if Sybase ASE was supported on RHEL 7. The documents contains a link to a list of supported platforms but the site seems to be down....
View ArticleRe: Sybase-ASE-16.0.6 on RHEL 7
HI Aaron If you have access to SAP support portal use following link SAP PRODUCT AVAILABILITY MATRIX ( PAM ) : https://service.sap.com/sap/support/pam HTH Avinash
View ArticleRe: Sybase-ASE-16.0.6 on RHEL 7
I might be able to find someone here who does. But it seems there must be a product availability matrix that doesn't require a support account, otherwise why would people buy support without knowing if...
View ArticleRe: Understanding/reading set option show_* on
Hi Mike, Ok, I got it.Most information of set option show_* output are for engineering to investigate an issue.Please set show_pio_costing on instead of show_lio_costingand then you can find estimated...
View ArticleRe: Understanding/reading set option show_* on
Thanks for the help. I've run set option show_pio_costing on on a 2 table join and I get 583 lines of output.It seems to consist of 26 sections of "START NEW COSTING" and a "FINALPLAN" I can vaguely...
View ArticleEntity Framework sybase connection not possible with VS 2013
Hi we have Visual Studio 2013 and Sybase 15.7 SDK installed on our machines, as well the Sybase.AdoNet4.AseClient installed in C:\Sybase\DataAccess\ADONET\dll. But when I try to go to add an ADO.Net...
View ArticleRe: Entity Framework sybase connection not possible with VS 2013
Hi Tejinder, The SDK isn't currently certified with Studio 2013 so the installer isn't making the right registry entries.This was answered through this blog already.ref:...
View ArticleRe: Sybase ASE editions on virtualized environments?
Dear Mark, thanks a lot for your detailed information, it's very helpful. I get your point, and I also have had several virtual machines (VMware) running different versions and editions of ASE: 12.5 ,...
View ArticleRe: Understanding/reading set option show_* on
Hi Mike, You checked the cost for each index from the output.Please check them beginning with PopNlJoin, PopMergeJoin, etc.You can see them after "START NEW COSTING" and "END NEW COSTING" blockSTART...
View ArticleRe: Increased heap memory per user in ASE 15.7
I found that updating a compressed table with quite a big row size got heap errors. Page size is default, 2k, and heap size is 8k. Nothing else suffered after we migrated to 15.7 (although I wouldn't...
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