PowerBuilder 9: Advanced Client/Server Development

Chapter 9. Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise

Bruce Armstrong

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Connecting to ASE

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DataWindows

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Sybase was one of the early pioneers of the client/server relational database. Adaptive Server Enterprise (formerly Sybase SQL Server) was one of the first to adopt significant new features such as stored procedures, triggers, a cost-based optimizer, blob columns, and Java in the database. Sybase’s focus for ASE, however, has been on providing a highly dependable database, ...