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The Invisible Database

Thoughts and opinions on embedded, mobile and self-managing database systems, as well as the software business.

Happy New Year 2012 from the SQL Anywhere Team!
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:06:18 EST
As we enter 2012, our engineering team is hard at work on our new SQL Anywhere OnDemand Edition "Fuji" product that is currently planned for GA launch in the 1st half of this year. Everyone is involved, for example: Development is hard at work on the last set of features and capabilities, fixing software issues and bugs, testing performance and scalability QA is working closely with development to create an

I'd rather play golf

Thoughts on data management, autonomic computing, and self-managing database systems.

Database Self-Management: Taming the Monster
Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:57:54 EST
This past July, when Duke University's Shivnath Babu presented his talk on Starfish at the University of Waterloo, Shivnath invited my team to contribute a paper to a special forthcoming issue of the IEEE Technical Bulletin on Data Engineering, to be published this December. This

Wandering Data

A blog about SQL Anywhere technologies for mobile applications

A SQL Anywhere Push Sample for Android
Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:21:06 EST
This sample uses the Google Cloud to Device Messaging Framework (C2DM) to push data changes from a SQL Anywhere database running on your desktop to an Android application. It shows you how to add push capability to your own SQL Anywhere application on Android. Preparation To get this sample to work, you first need to register for two services. Each of these services needs to recognize your application, and see that

Peering Behind the Browser

Exploring the World of Data Behind the Tags

Location, Location, Location! (Even in the Cloud)
Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:46:25 EST
The views and opinions expressed in this post are my own, and do not necessarily reflect those of Sybase, an SAP Company.The cloud puts an opaque level of indirection between you and your data. And, of course, this is the whole point. The cloud creates a virtual world of servers and disks that is seemingly both everywhere and nowhere all at the same time. However, this virtual world is superimposed on the real world. And in the real world, location matters. To illustrate this, we are going to g

Rows and Columns

SQL Anywhere perspective on technology

Simple.Data and SQL Anywhere - First Impressions
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:00:18 EST
I was recently referred to the Simple.Data library by a SQL Anywhere user Richard Hopton (@richardhopton on twitter) who has created the Simple.Data.SQLAnywhere adaptor for Simple.Data. I've written down some of my impressions here after taking a look at it. Simple.Data is a dynamic data access library for .Net that greatly simplifies database access. Its built on