Chris Pollach

** Hot News ** Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV Don't forget to check out the archive of past webinars! Tuesday October 4th 2011 at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris) Taking PowerBuilder to the Cloud (with Microsoft Azure) Accenture Case Study If you missed it at TechWave, now's your chance to see how Accenture took their PB application to the cloud. We'll show you the important lessons and some pitfalls we discovered along the way.  We will also discuss the overall process and tools that enabled Accenture to successfully take their PowerBuilder application to the cloud. Accenture has a commercial software solution originally developed in PowerBuilder, which is used by Fortune 500 companies. Presenter: Anthony Orsini Thursday October 13th 2011 at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris) Powerbuilder.NET, Expression Blend, Mobility and the CloudThe capital archite... (more)

ASE 15.7 for Free

Get a free copy of Sybase ASE!    You may not want to spend the money for a full production license of ASE, but you would like to run ASE for example, for the purposes of evaluation, development or preparing yourself for an ASE certification exam. Step 1: download the base product   To get a free copy, these are your options: A free Express Edition of ASE 15.7 for Linux can be downloaded here. While the ASE Express Edition is limited to 1 server engine, 2 Gb of memory and 5 Gb of disk space per server, the great thing is that this edition is free for production purposes! (note: these... (more)

ISUG - Online WorkShop

** Hot News ** PowerBuilder .NET "Next Step"     ISUG are pleased to announce that they will be running an expanded, online version of the workshop that was presented just prior to TechWave 2011.     This workshop will be three days in length, starting on Monday November 7 through until Wednesday November 9, 2011 inclusive.  The course "Lectures" will commence at 11am each day, and will last 2-3 hours, perhaps longer, depending on the amount of material presented on a given day and the number of questions from the attendees.  The rest of the time will be set aside for lab exercis... (more)

Happy Birthday!

 Happy 20th Birthday - PowerBuilder!  From the Sybase Techwave event at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas this week ... Left: Dave Fish    - PB Technical Evangelist from EngineeringRight: John Strano - PB Technical Evangelist from Marketing PB: Your Dad - Dave Litwack - is very proud of you! Regards ... Uncle Chris (I was there at Cullinet when PB was conceived and at PowerSoft when he was born)   :-) ... (more)

Chris Pollach's PowerBuilder Blog: "SQLXTRACT New Release!"

SQLXTRACT - New Release! I am pleased to announce that Software Tool & Die Inc. has just released a new version of the SQLXtract utility (10.2.1) that reverse engineers Sybase's proprietary SQL format (PBSELECT) into ANSI, PL/SQL or TransAct SQL from the "DataWindow" object. The new version of the SQLXtract utility was mainly revised to allow it to reverse engineer the source code from a Unicode based library vs.. an ANSI format previously. The output of SQLXTract is a textual .SQL file that can be input directly into products like Quest Central (aka SQLExpert) for further analysis... (more)