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Brad Wery

PB UI Controls Version 2.6.3 Now Available Jan 19 Version 2.6.3 of the UI controls are now available for download. This release focuses on performance improvements and bug fixes. You should now experience no flickering in the tab control and powerdock control. The buttonlistbar was enhanced a bit to make it perform a little quicker whan no image is specified for a button. The toolbar control had a bug that caused it to crash when resizing if there are items on both the left and right side. Please let us know if you see any other iss...

Free UI Control Offer Jan 4 Until Jan 30, 2010, Werysoft is offering the PB UI controls free to anyone who purchases a copy of QweryBuilder. QweryBuilder is a database development and SQL query tool. Its purpose is to make accessing information from a database simple, quick, accurate and efficient. QweryBuilder implements innovative ideas to make this possible. An end user can extract and update data without writing a line of SQL. Database developers can create ad-hoc queries, procedures, tables, views and trig...

QweryBuilder 5.3.0 Released Dec 31 Werysoft is very excited to announce the release of QweryBuilder 5.3.0. 5.3.0 contains some very significant changes. Prior versions had connection information on the applications main toolbar. This has been moved to the individual query windows. We felt that this made it easier to know which data source a query window was connected to. In addition to this, we concentrated on making this the most stable and bug free release to date. Our goal was to remove all bugs...and for the most par...

Werysoft Blog Dec 11 A new blog was created for Werysoft and QweryBuilder. http://werysoft.blogspot.com/

2010...A New Year for Werysoft Dec 8 2010 is going to be an exciting year for Werysoft. As you may or may not know, Werysoft produces products such as QweryBuilder and the PB UI Controls from PowerToTheBuilder.com. We used 2009 to build quality into our products. We just released a new version of the UI controls and by the end of this year we will put out a new release of QweryBuilder. This next release of QweryBuilder is especially important to us. We believe that the product has been brought to the next level with regards to pe...

Breck Carter

Visit SQLA! ...the new SQL Anywhere online community Mar 7 This was posted on all the SQL Anywhere newsgroups this morning...This is an open invitation to all SQL Anywhere newsgroup users to visit the new Web 2.0 site called SQLA.SQLA is for new SQL Anywhere users, enthusiasts and experts alike. It runs on the Question and Answer software originally made famous by StackOverflow.com.SQLA isn't the same as StackOverflow, however. SQLA is a new community, devoted to SQL Anywhere and everything that comes "in the box", and it is completely separate from Sta...

The Final FAQ Feb 28 As noted in my previous post the new SQLA question-and-answer website devoted to SQL Anywhere is ready for prime time. It's still in beta, yes, but it's ready for more people to use it.The first step in that direction is now complete: The SQLA FAQ has been updated to reflect everything that's been learned over the first three month's of SQLA's existence.Here's the Table Of Contents for SQLA's "Final FAQ":What kind of questions can I ask here?Do I have to log in to SQLA, or create an account?Can ...

SQLA Has Backup! Feb 25 SQLA is the new community question-and-answer website devoted to SQL Anywhere that started Beta testing back on November 8, 2009.SQLA is still in Beta, but it IS ready for more traffic now that The Really Big Obstacle has been overcome: We have backup!(if anyone wants a copy of the XML dump of all SQLA content, just email me at breck.carter at gmail.com)So... SQLA is ready for prime time!Time to invite more people to participate.But first... it's time for the administrator (that's me) to update...

Sybase Developer Days Worldwide Seminar Tour 2010 Feb 18 Save the Date...Join Sybase's technical experts who will showcase the latest releases of our industry leading development software. All seminars are free and run from 8.30am - 2pm local time (timing may vary slightly by location) with breakfast and lunch included. Each Seminar features a keynote presentation followed by your choice of tracks:Advantage Database Server 10PowerBuilder 12SQL Anywhere 12Sybase Unwired Platform 1.5EuropeMonday, April 19, 2010, Milan, ItalyTuesday, April 20, 2010, Wies...

Try rebooting Feb 1 Caution: This is another fluff-piece just like "When did Google become perfect?"... it's not in the same league as deep-thought articles like, for example, those by Glenn Paulley and others... heck, it's not even in the same sport.But sometimes shallow thinking is called for... like when you're faced with some bizarre computer problem that just won't go away when you wave a dead chicken over the keyboard. That's when "try rebooting" comes in to play.I remember the first time I had reboot power o...

Dave Fish

PowerBuilder 12 CTP Hands On Guided Tours May 28 PowerBuilder 12 CTP Hands On Events in JuneSybase in conjunction with ISUG will be holding a series of hands on Guided Tours of the new PowerBuilder .NET Community Technology Preview release during the month of June. For more information and to register please visit:www.isug.com/common/UpcomingEvents.htmlEvents will be held in:Boston,New York,Minneapolis,Houston,DenverThe public CTP is scheduled to begin in early June. Download information will be made available here as soon as the program begin...

PowerBuilder Accelerated Development Tour Jan 21 PowerBuilder Accelerated Development TourWe’re packing up the PowerBuilder team and hitting the road to bring the latest in PowerBuilder news, code, and goodies to you. PowerBuilder 11.5 just came out and we want to share how the new features and capabilities will help accelerate your development, bring aesthetic enhancements to your PowerBuilder applications, and simplify .NET development. We are also working fast and furiously on delivering PowerBuilder 12, which blend the Visual Studio Isolat...

PowerBuilder 11.5 and strong-named .NET Assemblies May 13 Another new feature in PowerBuilder 11.5 is the ability to generate strong-named assemblies for any of the four .NET targets (Web Forms, Windows Forms, .NET Web Services or .NET Assemblies). What does this mean?Well the Help file says this:A strong name consists of an assembly's identity—its simple text name, version number, and culture information (when provided)—plus a public key and digital signature. It is generated from an assembly file using the corresponding private key. The assembly file...

More on Graphs in PowerBuilder 11.5 May 10 Last week I posted a screen shot of the new 3D Rendering capabilities being added to some of the 3D graphs in PowerBuilder 11.5. It was met with mixed reviews on the PowerBuilder Futures newsgroup (forums.sybase.com) so I went back to the drawing board to see what I could come up with. Apparently there are quite a few configuration settings one can set programmatically to render better looking graphs. For example, the primary color scheme default can be changed by making a couple of function cal...

DataWindow Tooltips in 11.5 May 6 Today's sneak preview is on the DataWindow Tooltip enhancement in 11.5. This screenshot shows a tooltip on the first_name column:This shows a tooltip with the title property populated as well as an icon property selected. It also shows the bubble format. Below you can see the list of properties that will be available for tooltips:It is important to point out that you can place a tooltip on any control on the DataWindow. Drawing objects, buttons, nested reports, computed fields, labels, they all ...

Jason Froebe

Get it here! Perl DBD::Sybase 1.09.01 for Active State Perl 5.10 and 5.8 on Windows XP/Vista/7 32bit Mar 9 Assuming that you installed Sybase OpenClient 15.5 from the 15.5 PC Client: Install ActiveState Perl from http://www.activestate.com (free) and install DBI if it isn’t already installed.  It should be but you never know… Start -> ActiveState Perl -> Perl Package Manager install DBI exit Now, the easy part.  Install the DBD::Sybase 1.09.01 PPM: download DBD::Sybase 1.09.01 PPM extract zip file [...]

For those of you that don’t know, last week I had my wisdom teeth removed. There were a few complications.. Mar 1 Tuesday, I took Jason to the oral surgeon’s to have all four of his wisdom teeth pulled. The surgery itself took about 45 minutes. It turned out there was a lot of infection back there, and as the doctor put it “it was messy”. The anesthesia made Jason really [...]

How To: Fix Nick Berlette’s excellent Redirect Plugin for WordPress 2.6 and higher Feb 19 The static pages (like Store) are working again.  I’ve had to fix the redirect plugin by Nick Berlette.  If you want it to work with your modern Wordpress blog (2.6 or higher) you just need to change a tiny bit. Remove this: require_once($_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] . ‘/wp-config.php’); Replace with: $root = dirname(dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__)))); if (file_exists($root.‘/wp-load.php’)) &#...

Free Sybase Power Designer 15 Viewer! Feb 19 If you ever receive a Sybase Power Designer file (such as the pdm file from Jeff Tallman) but you don’t want to either purchase or install the full blown Power Designer, then I have an answer for you.  It is the Power Designer Viewer from Sybase. While it is free, you have to fill out a [...]

Get your Sybase ASE 15.5 MDA table posters! Straight from Sybase’s Jeff Tallman Feb 19 I asked Jeff Tallman if I could redistribute his excellent MDA posters for Sybase’s ASE 15.5 database server.  He said yes so …  here they are in both Adobe PDF and Sybase PowerDesigner PDM formats! Jeff Tallman also provided us with the MDA posters for Sybase 15.0.3 last year.

Jay Stevens

25 Ways to Customize Sybase PowerDesigner – Miscellaneous Mar 13 Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} This is a list of PowerDesigner customizations that apply to all mod...

30 Ways to Customize Sybase PowerDesigner – Data Modeling Feb 24 30 Ways to Customize Sybase PowerDesigner – Data Modeling Here is a beginning list of ways to customize Conceptual, Logical or Physical data model behavior within PowerDesigner.  Please comment on your thoughts, additional ideas or corrections. 1.      Alter datatype mapping when generating from CDM to LDM or PDM. 2.      Customize generated DDL to include standard SQL header / comment block. 3.      Customize generated triggers. 4.      Customize default stored procedure templates. 5....

Ways to customize Sybase PowerDesigner – Introduction Dec 13 Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} As a PowerDesigner consultant, I have many opportunities t...

PowerDesigner 15 First Impressions Sep 18 The PowerDesigner 15 beta just ended last week.  This means we are getting close to the release of PD 15. I still have good friends in the PowerDesigner marketing, sales, engineering and support organizations so I have an unfair advantage when it comes to finding out what is coming next in the PowerDesigner product.  Most of you, I realize, do not have these kinds of contacts.  Even with these contacts I have found that the best way to get a head-start on new PowerDesigner versions is to get on ...

Techwave 2008 Impressions Aug 21 I was very pleased with Techwave 2008. I had an unfair advantage since due to my TeamSybase status it did not cost me anything to attend. My objectives for the week were, in no particular order:Reconnect with PowerDesigner Product Management, Engineering and SupportEducation, see if I could learn any new tricksNetwork, get acquainted with potential customers and or Sybase people that might need my services for their customersReceptions

Paul Horan

2009 Napa Valley Marathon! Mar 4 The Napa Valley Marathon was run on Sunday, March 1st, 2009.  26.2 miles of the most gorgeous countryside in the world.  It’s my favorite race because A) it runs the length of the Silverado Trail from Calistoga to Napa, and B) the male and female winners of the race (neither of which was me) win their [...]

Techwave Goes Global Feb 24 The annual Sybase International User Conference known affectionately as “Techwave” is no more, at least as we know it….   The new plan is to hold several regional events around the world, so instead of a single 5-day conference somewhere in the US, there will be 5 shorter events held at international locations. Some questions I [...]

There’s a new Sheriff in town… Feb 19 …and its name is SySAM.   Sybase Software Asset Management 2.0, to be more precise.  This is the new software licensing mechanism, based on FlexNET, that now governs a good portion of the Sybase product catalog.  It has been in use with ASE and PowerDesigner for some time, and will eventually cover IQ and SUP as well. [...]

Calling .NET Web Services from PB11.5 Jan 19 On the eve of this historic event – the Inauguration of Barack Obama as our 44th President – I thought it only fitting to provide a post that combined PowerBuilder with Politics… The web service in question serves up a random quote from our incomparable, (and soon to be unemployed) 43rd President, George W. [...]

Do you miss ObjectCycle? Jan 14 Ah, the good old days of PowerBuilder 6.5… It was a rock solid release, every consultant that could drop two commandbuttons on a window was making crazy money, and PowerBuilder shipped with it’s own Source Control package named ObjectCycle. It wasn’t a fancy integrated behemoth like Borland StarTeam or Rational ClearCase, but it was tightly [...]