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Newest Features

For those who are familiar with earlier versions of Sybase IQ, here are the new features added to from SAP Sybase IQ 15.

• Performance enhancements: The column store engine has been enhanced with extreme compression capabilities that improve I/O rates and reduce the amount of data to be stored on disk.
• High-speed data loading: High-performance data loading ingests large amounts of data faster than ever — from terabytes to petabytes — making big data available to applications and people faster.
• Improved scalability: Key improvements maintain high performance and efficiency for the growing volume of unpredictable, user-driven analytic workloads.
• Data protection: Administrators have further options for protecting the security of enterprise systems.
• Heightened availability: Enhancements help ensure that enterprise data is always available to business-critical analytics and dashboards.

Big data is a necessity at scale: if you’re trying to listen to every transatlantic phonecall, you need to use MapReduce. … if you need to search the entire internet in milliseconds you need to use MapReduce, if you need to run the largest social network in the world you need to use MapReduce. If you don’t you can probably scale with a database.

Full Story @ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/28/hadoop_no_sql_dont_believe_the_hype/

 

Oracle products vs. Sybase products

Both Oracle and Sybase provide a range of database-related products. The following list illustrates how the main high-level Oracle products compared to Sybase products. While this list is deliberately kept brief, it provides some basic guidance on how Oracle and Sybase can be aligned.

About Sybase ASE
Sybase ASE is the database that powers Wall Street. ASE has been delivering rock-solid reliability and top-level performance for the past 25 years. Sybase ASE has a lower total cost of ownership than Oracle, and delivers better performance on the same hardware. Sybase ASE is ready to be the database in any application that runs on Oracle today.

Backup Server Traceflags

 Backup Server trace flag: 1 : Prints blocksize used during a dump or a load.
 Backup Server trace flag: 2 : Prints i/o optimization parameters used during a dump or a load.
 Backup Server trace flag: 3 : Allow dumping to the /dev/null device.
 Backup Server trace flag: 4 : Prints allocation percentage of the allocation units during dump.
 Backup Server trace flag: 5 : Prints the database pagesize used during a dump or a load.
 Backup Server trace flag: 6 : Sets tracing ON for the external API module.
 Backup Server trace flag: 7 : Disable locking on a file/device.

How Can we Enable:

SYB_BACKUP…qatraceon <traceflag> : Turn On a particuar trace flag
SYB_BACKUP…qatraceon 0 : Display the all enabled traceflags
SYB_BACKUP…qatraceoff <traceflag> : Turn Off a particuar trace flag
SYB_BACKUP…qatraceoff 0 : Turn Off all trace flags

1> SYB_BACKUP…qatraceon 1
2> go
Backup Server: 3.59.1.1: Turning on Backup Server trace flag: 1
(return status = 0)
1> SYB_BACKUP…qatraceon 2
2> go
Backup Server: 3.59.1.1: Turning on Backup Server trace flag: 2
(return status = 0)
1> SYB_BACKUP…qatraceon 3
2> go
Backup Server: 3.59.1.1: Turning on Backup Server trace flag: 3
(return status = 0)
1> SYB_BACKUP…qatraceon 4
2> go
Backup Server: 3.59.1.1: Turning on Backup Server trace flag: 4
(return status = 0)
1> SYB_BACKUP…qatraceon 5
2> go
Backup Server: 3.59.1.1: Turning on Backup Server trace flag: 5
(return status = 0)
1> SYB_BACKUP…qatraceon 6
2> go
Backup Server: 3.59.1.1: Turning on Backup Server trace flag: 6
(return status = 0)
1> SYB_BACKUP…qatraceon 7
2> go
Backup Server: 3.59.1.1: Turning on Backup Server trace flag: 7
(return status = 0)
1> SYB_BACKUP…qatraceon 0
2> go
Backup Server: 3.63.1.1: Backup Server trace flag: 1 is on. This flag does the following: Prints blocksize used during a dump or a load.
Backup Server: 3.63.1.1: Backup Server trace flag: 2 is on. This flag does the following: Prints i/o optimization parameters used during a dump or a load.
Backup Server: 3.63.1.1: Backup Server trace flag: 3 is on. This flag does the following: Allow dumping to the /dev/null device.
Backup Server: 3.63.1.1: Backup Server trace flag: 4 is on. This flag does the following: Prints allocation percentage of the allocation units during dump.
Backup Server: 3.63.1.1: Backup Server trace flag: 5 is on. This flag does the following: Prints the database pagesize used during a dump or a load.
Backup Server: 3.63.1.1: Backup Server trace flag: 6 is on. This flag does the following: Sets tracing ON for the external API module.
Backup Server: 3.63.1.1: Backup Server trace flag: 7 is on. This flag does the following: Disable locking on a file/device.
(return status = 0)

1> dump database model to “/tmp/model.dmp”
2> go
Backup Server session id is: 42. Use this value when executing the ‘sp_volchanged’ system stored procedure after fulfilling any volume change request from the Backup Server.
Backup Server: 4.173.1.1: The database pagesize is ’2048′ bytes.
Backup Server: 4.41.1.1: Creating new disk file /tmp/model.dmp.
Backup Server: 6.28.1.1: Dumpfile name ‘model122871499A  ‘ section number 1 mounted on disk file ‘/tmp/model.dmp’
Backup Server: 4.166.1.1: Using dbiosize of 262144 bytes for device /tmp/model.dmp.
Backup Server: 4.165.1.1: Using iocount of 1 for device /tmp/model.dmp.
Backup Server: 4.166.1.2: Using zonesize of 262144 bytes for device /tmp/model.dmp.
Backup Server: 4.166.1.3: Using blocksize of 65536 bytes for device /tmp/model.dmp.
Backup Server: 4.165.1.2: Using numzones of 3 for device /tmp/model.dmp.
Backup Server: 4.155.1.1: Using maximum block size of 65536 bytes for device /tmp/model.dmp.
Backup Server: 4.169.1.1: Dumping entire allocation unit of virtual disk /opt/sybase/new15/ASE/data/master_PROD_ASE_DS.dev, allocation page number 0 having reserved percentage 56% and cumulative allocation percentage 43%.
Backup Server: 4.169.1.1: Dumping entire allocation unit of virtual disk /opt/sybase/new15/ASE/data/master_PROD_ASE_DS.dev, allocation page number 0 having reserved percentage 56% and cumulative allocation percentage 43%.
Backup Server: 4.169.1.1: Dumping only allocated pages of virtual disk /opt/sybase/new15/ASE/data/master_PROD_ASE_DS.dev, allocation page number 256 having reserved percentage 56% and cumulative allocation percentage 22%.
Backup Server: 4.169.1.1: Dumping only allocated pages of virtual disk /opt/sybase/new15/ASE/data/master_PROD_ASE_DS.dev, allocation page number 512 having reserved percentage 56% and cumulative allocation percentage 21%.
Backup Server: 4.169.1.1: Dumping only allocated pages of virtual disk /opt/sybase/new15/ASE/data/master_PROD_ASE_DS.dev, allocation page number 768 having reserved percentage 56% and cumulative allocation percentage 16%.
Backup Server: 4.169.1.1: Dumping only allocated pages of virtual disk /opt/sybase/new15/ASE/data/master_PROD_ASE_DS.dev, allocation page number 1024 having reserved percentage 56% and cumulative allocation percentage 0%.
Backup Server: 4.169.1.1: Dumping only allocated pages of virtual disk /opt/sybase/new15/ASE/data/master_PROD_ASE_DS.dev, allocation page number 1280 having reserved percentage 56% and cumulative allocation percentage 0%.
Backup Server: 4.188.1.1: Database model: 820 kilobytes (100%) DUMPED.
Backup Server: 3.43.1.1: Dump phase number 1 completed.
Backup Server: 3.43.1.1: Dump phase number 2 completed.
Backup Server: 3.43.1.1: Dump phase number 3 completed.
Backup Server: 4.188.1.1: Database model: 828 kilobytes (100%) DUMPED.
Backup Server: 3.42.1.1: DUMP is complete (database model).

1> SYB_BACKUP…qatraceoff 0
2> go
(return status = 0)
1> SYB_BACKUP…qatraceon 0
2> go
(return status = 0)

Dear All,

It gives me an immense pleasure to share with you all that we have completed eventful journey of 3 years of sybaseblog.com. Though journey has been slow, it has been steady. We all know that steady and slow wins the race.

Since we started our blog 3 years before, then on world was going through turmoil of economic slowdown, lack of faith in technology etc. but at the same time Sybase was writing its success story differently. Sybase has been acquired by SAP as a preferred database for the ERP SAP, its growth directly/indirectly increased manifold. It got wings and reaching in new dimensions. New avenues have been opened for the Sybase.

In last three years, we started from a blog and grew to knowledge partner in Sybase Database world though trainings and seminars.
Since now we all are part of now SAP Sybase community, we have miles to go ahead and to achieve better things together.

At last I would like to thank once again to all of you for  support and the opportunity to serve you.

- Team, sybaseblog.com.

SAP on Monday announced a new family of products that marry its Business Objects BI (business intelligence) software with the Sybase IQ analytic database and include specialized business content for use by various industries.

The four offerings include BI suite, analytics edition; BI platform, analytics edition; Edge analytics edition; and Crystal Server, analytics edition. The latter two are mostly aimed at small and medium-size companies.

Source : http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/437296/sap_bundles_analytic_apps_iq_database/

http://www.cio.in/news/sap-bundles-analytic-apps-iq-database-308692012

It was with a lot of trepidation when I sat down to write this post as I am a MS SQL Server DBA/PROGRAMMER by trade, experience and choice. Having started out on SQL Server 6.5 many many many years ago, I have always been loyal to the database I had come to know and trust. Please do not get me wrong, I do not plan to bash SQL Server as I still use it on a daily basis, this post is merely my take on the comparison of 2 completely different database products….  – AntonS

Read Full Story @ http://www.biitb.com/?p=235

Finally the curtain is up :

SAP today provided the following road map details and areas of strategic innovation and investment of its database portfolio to increase its database market leadership by 2015:

• SAP HANA platform: This state-of-the-art in-memory platform is planned to be the core of the SAP real-time data platform, offering extreme performance and innovation for next-generation applications.
• SAP Sybase ASE: SAP Sybase ASE is intended as a supported option for SAP Business Suite applications while SAP HANA is planned to augment the extreme transactions of SAP Sybase ASE with real-time reporting capabilities.
• SAP® Sybase IQ® server: SAP Sybase IQ is planned to deliver data management for “big data” analytics, offering extreme total cost of ownership (TCO). Progressive integration with SAP HANA is intended to provide a smart store for aged/cold data. SAP Sybase IQ is envisioned to share common capabilities and life-cycle management with the SAP HANA platform.
• SAP® Sybase® SQL Anywhere: This market-leading mobile and embedded database with millions of deployments is planned to be the front-end database for the SAP HANA platform, extending its reach to mobile and embedded applications in real time.
• SAP® Sybase® PowerDesigner software: This flagship data modeling, information architecture and orchestration software is envisioned to become the foundation of the modeling solution for the SAP real-time data platform, offering a large base of experts to customers. Ford Motor Company recently selected the software to drive its data modeling and management and centralize all logical and physical modeling functions.
• SAP® Sybase® Event Stream Processor (ESP) software, SAP® Sybase® Replication Server and SAP solutions for EIM: Combined, these offerings are intended to provide data assessment and integration of batch, real-time change data capture and streaming data into the SAP real-time data platform.
• SAP real-time data platform integrated with Hadoop: SAP HANA and SAP Sybase IQ are planned to extend support for accessing “big data” sources such as Hadoop, and offer a deeply integrated pre-processing infrastructure

Source :: http://www.sap.com/corporate-en/press/newsroom/press-releases/press.epx?pressid=18621