Archive for 'Sybase' Category

Constraints and Guidlines

By admin - Last updated: Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Standards to create the constraints Rule Each table must have one or more unique identifiers. At least one must be implemented as a primary key. The unique identifier must have true business meaning where possible, and not simply be a generated sequence number. A surrogate key may be used where performance considerations would warrant it. [...]

Naming Conventions in Sybase

By admin - Last updated: Monday, May 11, 2009

 General Naming Conventions  Names must be a maximum of 30 characters long. Unless absolutely necessary only alphanumeric characters and underscores should be used. Each word in a name must be separated by an underscore. Names are not to be considered case-sensitive. A name cannot be a Sybase SQL Server Reserved Word or Keyword. (Please refer [...]

Sybase CODE REVIEW CHECKLIST

By admin - Last updated: Monday, May 11, 2009

No. Item 1 Standards/documentation   Database objects names less than or equal to 30 characters   Stored procedures P<event type>_< procedure_name >. Event Type: P – Process, S – Select, I – Insert, U – Update, D – Delete, IU – Insert/Update   Conformance to coding standards Naming conventions to be followed for database objects [...]

Sybase ASE tip: Tempdb Space Management

By admin - Last updated: Thursday, April 23, 2009

A default installation of Sybase ASE has a small tempdb located on the master device. Almost all ASE implementations need a much larger temporary database to handle sorts and worktables and therefore DBA’s need to increase tempdb. This document gives some recommendations how this could be done and describes various techniques to guarantee maximum availability [...]