The Official New Features Guide to Sybase ASE 15

Appendix B Use Cases

Throughout this book, many of the new ASE 15 features as well as some late 12.5.x changes are covered from a technical standpoint. To supplement some of the material offered in the book with practical applications, this appendix demonstrates the use of ASE 15 new features in real business scenarios.

This appendix presents three business cases, employing the following ASE 15 new features:

Case 1:

• Semantic partitions

• Computed columns

Case 2:

• XML

• Computed columns

• Functional indexes

Case 3:

• Scrollable cursors

Business Case 1 ...