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A database administrator regularly need to address database performance issues. But database performance and tuning is not always an easy task because it can sometimes involve several complicated processes to find bottlenecks. For several years now, I use a free tool  named ASEMON released under GNU GPL license (yes, it is open source !!). ASEMON is developed and maintained by Jean-Paul Martin at Sybase France. Here is a short description of the product…

1°) What is ASEMON ?

ASEMON is an efficient and reliable tool that collect and store performance metrics from various Sybase products such as Sybase ASE, Replication Server and Sybase IQ. It is made of two components:

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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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This happened in May 2008, Sybase and Sun Microsystems have build the world’s largest data warehouse based on Sybase IQ and a Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server.

The data warehouse is certified to support one Petabyte of mixed relational and unstructured data.

In total, the data warehouse contains six trillion rows of transactional data and more than 185 million content-searchable documents, such as e-mails, reports, spreadsheets and other multimedia objects. According to Sybase it is twice the size of the largest commercial data warehouse known to date.