Rumors have been circulating the last days that SAP would announce a significant acquisition. There had to be something in the wind since Vishal Sikka, CTO SAP was a no-show at TIBCO's TUCON second ...

I have to admit that when I heard that SAP announced their proposed acquisition of Sybase, my first reaction was: “Why?” followed by “Sybase is still around?” Sybase was a real contender for being the ...

Wednesday May 12 SAP announced it has signed an agreement to buy database software maker Sybase for $5.8 billion. This acquisition is expected to diversify SAP’s product line, expanding its business ...

Automating routine tasks is the hallmark of a great application. This automation allows the developer to tackle more important issues. Triggers provide automation to database developers. This article ...

However, SYBASE database is generally set for case sensitivity, and special consideration should be given to the names of objects (such as tables and columns) when they are to be used in SAS software ...

TEXT stores character data of variable length up to two gigabytes. SAS supports the TEXT data type provided in SYBASE; however, SAS only allows a maximum of 32,767 bytes of character data.