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Book Launch: Developing Stored Procedures

Online E-Book launched by Salmon Training

Salmon Training is delighted to announce the launch of our new online e-book on stored procedure development.

Error handling, transaction management, temporary tables, performance tuning, security... all topics demonstrated through extensive stored procedure listings designed for hands-on learning.

We're making a free sample chapter available right now in the Books section.

Latest Articles in the Zone

Review: Sybase Resources at the DBA-Sybase Web Site

This article reviews a website, www.dba-sybase.com, which provides resources for Sybase DBAs through the format of case studies from a working DBA.


Which Scripting Language for Sybase Administration on Windows

This paper considers five scripting options available to automate the administration of Sybase database servers on Windows.

Review: Podcast on "The Art of Performance & Tuning: Tips and Tricks"

This article reviews a podcast from Sybase in their P&T series. This podcast, released by Sybase in January 2007, is the third podcast produced by the company for ASE. Podcasting joins other recent innovations by the company to disseminate educational material such as providing staff blogs and recorded webinars (web seminars).

Performance Tuning for Database Developers: Transact-SQL

Transact-SQL offers more than one way to perform many tasks, and some techniques offer better performance than others. Here are some tricks of the trade for writing high performing T-SQL.

General Principles when Performance Tuning Sybase Database Applications

This article provides an overview of general principles to follow when performance tuning database applications running on Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise.