[Gllug] Sybase on Linux and Migration from MS SQL Server and elsewhere

[Mamading Ceesay]

Hi,

I'm wondering if any GLLUG members are currently running Sybase on
Linux in production.  I used to work with some huge production Sybase
databases on Solaris.  I did dabble a little with installing Sybase
ASE 12.5 on a box running Red Hat, but didn't do any serious work with
it.

I've noticed that the latest ASE release has additional compatibility
features to make it easier to migrate existing databases from MS SQL
Server to Sybase ASE.  For those of you that don't know, MS SQL Server
is a fork of an older version of Sybase much like XEmacs is a fork of
GNU Emacs.  They share the same stored procedure language Transact-SQL
but there has been divergence in syntax, features and of course
codebase.

My suspicion is that sites running Sybase ASE on Linux have mostly
migrated from Solaris to take advantage of the cheaper Intel platform.
 I would expect migration from MS SQL Server on Windows to Sybase ASE
on Linux to be less common.

So any GLLUG members running Sybase ASE on Linux and where did you migrate from?

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Mamading Ceesay

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