A Practitioner's Guide to Upgrading to Sybase ASE 15

Successful upgrade is based upon good Planning, Testing and Upgrade. This book helps DBAs, developers, Architects and project managers master all these three crucial areas: · How to start selling the upgrade idea · How to prove that it pays to upgrade to ASE 15 · How to build the right team for the upgrade purposes · How to develop successful testing and upgrade strategies · How to go about implementing the upgrade · Understand, leverage and take advantage of the new ASE15 optimizer · Understand the concept of Semantic Partitioning and how to possibly deploy it in place of traditional archiving · Use the described SQL code to diagnose performance problems and pin-point problematic SQL