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Entries from June 2008

You Want to Store How Much Data????

June 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

SQL Anywhere ships a sample called instest (found in the Samples\SQLAnywhere\PerformanceInsert directory of your SQL Anywhere install) which allows you to experiment on insert performance for SQL Anywhere. However, it is important to think things through before picking requirements out of the air.
In speaking with potential customers, they often ask us whether we can […]

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Tags: Commentary

Accessing Web Services From SQL Anywhere

June 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I’ve been playing with SQL Anywhere’s support for web services. What is particularly cool is that you can call out to (or consume) a web service right from the database server using a stored procedure. Since I have been playing with blogs, and setting up rss, I wondered if I could consume RSS […]

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Tags: Development

At last the spammers found me…

June 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Well, I am in the middle of updating the blog to use the “Bad Behaviour” plugin to see if I can cut down on the amount of spam comments I am getting.
Fortunately the work I did to get the blog running on SQL Anywhere in a generic way allowed me to get this plugin up […]

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Tags: Development