Why You’ll Want to Upgrade to Sybase ASE 15.7 ?
Fabien Reygrobellet
The features fit into a few broad categories:
1. Dealing with large data sets. This includes better management of
large objects, as well as enhancements to operational, storage, and
data management tasks. With the costs of today’s high-end SANs, data
compression may pay for the whole project.
2. Performance and scalability. New features here include better
management of dynamic queries (I know that one is going to make
friends) as well as a variety of ways to compress data, and better
kernel integration for parallel processing performance.
3. More ease of maintenance. ASE 15.7 supports fully recoverable DDL
commands such as select into, alter table, and reorg rebuild. In
addition, you can now shrink log space, diagnostic support has taken a
major step forward, and alter table statements can now be performed
without copying data (how about that for speed of internal application
upgrades?).
4. Application and developer productivity, including a variety of
transact-sql enhancements.
5. Security, including object ownership changing, login profiles, and
single sign-on
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