Chapter 10. Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere

Bruce Armstrong

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Connecting via PowerBuilder

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Data Types

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Interacting with the Database

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Sybase’s Adaptive Server Anywhere (ASA) is a small-footprint, low-maintenance database designed for mobile, embedded, personal, and workgroup settings. In spite of its compact nature, it provides all the “big iron” features, such as replication, synchronization, and Java in the database. It is also a very flexible database, which makes it highly suitable for use in the development of prototypes for applications ...

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