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Bloomberg reported that SAP is close to buy Sybase for about $6 billion. Sybase shares literally jumped today on stock market while a report said the company is in merger talks with German software SAP.

Real news ? or propaganda for traders profits ? You read more information about the possible Sybase SAP $6 billion deal on Reuters web site here.

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UPDATE May 12, 2010 5:20 PM ET: The Sybase board of directors has unanimously approved the transaction and SAP AG confirms it will acquire Sybase. See it here

This is an External End of Life Notice for Sybase IQ Version 12.7, the end of life date is 04/23/10, and the end of engineering support is effective on 04/30/11 and 03/31/12.
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MDA tables are very useful to understand what’s going on within your dataserver, so you can carry out accurate and successful performance and tuning campaigns. In this post I publish few basic Sybase stored procedures to use with MDA tables that focus on databases objects activity only (but I may release more MDA stored procedures in the future).

If you haven’t installed yet MDA tables in your Sybase Adaptive Server, you can refer to my previous post HowTo install MonTables to install them. Read more…

Sybase is back with 3 new technical webcasts about Replication Server 15.5. Sybase webcasts series are very valuable to acquire additional knowledge from Sybase experts. The Replication Server’s webcasts are scheduled from May through June 2010 as follow:

Part 1: Replication Server 15.5 Overview

Tuesday, May 4, 2010
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
(10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PT)

Part 2: Real-Time Loading for Sybase IQ

Thursday, May 20, 2010
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET
(10:00 am – 11:00 am PT)

Part 3: Replication Server and Performance

Tuesday, June 8, 2010
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET
(10:00 am – 11:00 am PT)

You can join Sybase experts webcasts for FREE: Register Here

Surprisingly, I still see some of my customers using Sql BackTrack to backup their Sybase ASE databases, even with simple backup strategy such as "dump database"… Sql BackTrack is a great third tool package to complete the "backup/restore tools" provided by Sybase ASE. But Sql BackTrack license cost can be very expensive. In this hard economic area, you can help your company to cut costs by skipping Sql BackTrack. How ? By using only new backup features Sybase implemented this last decade, and some work !

When I discuss with my customers the reasons why they use Sql BackTrack, they answer:

1°) "on the fly" backup compression capability.
2°) restore objects DDL (tables indexes views etc…) from backups files.
3°) databases are saved directly to TSM thanks to the OBSI module (additional cost).

For each key requirements mentioned above, Sybase has a solution or a workaround for it ! Read more…