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The Invisible Database

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

It's a Test Bash!
Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:08:18 EST
In December, we released the beta version of the next major release of SQL Anywhere to beta program participants. Code named "Innsbruck", this new version is currently scheduled for GA release later this year. The beta program is going well: We have a large number of participants in the beta program The software looks good We have had very few reported issuesOur development team is now working on performance tuning, and fine tuning the software. We

I'd rather play golf

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

SELECT over an UPDATE statement - part trois
Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:11:32 EST
In a previous article, I presented some examples of how one can SELECT rows from a dml-derived-table, a new SQL language feature of the SQL Anywhere 12 server, now in beta. In this post, I want to brie

Wandering Data

Mobile computing and databases

Wandering into Carnival of the Mobilists
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:20:12 EST
A rotating collection of links called Carnival of the Mobilists has been running for a couple of years now, pulling together the best in mobile blogging. I'm happy to say that this blog appears in its 206th edition, no less, hosted by mobile marketing company mobiThinking. You can find the carnival here you can find a set of posts that are, not surprisingly given the time of year, looking forward to see w

Peering Behind the Browser

Exploring the World of Data Behind the Tags

Using SQL Anywhere "Innsbruck" to Send Emails through GMail
Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:21:53 EST
While SQL Anywhere has supported sending email for many releases, it was not able to send email through secure SMTP servers (such as the popular smtp.gmail.com server) because they require TLS connections. This limitation had been mentioned before by users trying to set up the SQL Anywhere Monitor to use GMail accounts for sending alert messages. In

Rows and Columns

SQL Anywhere perspective on technology

SQL Anywhere on Windows 7
Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:57:38 EST
Just a notice that we have recently published a new ebf for SQL Anywhere 9.0.2 (build 3924) that has been tested and is certified to run on Windows 7.Download it from the Sybase Software Downloads siteAlso, as a reminder, you can find all of the SQL Anywhere supported platforms information on the SQL Anywhere Supported Platforms page.