Re: Collation Errors for Installation in Australia
When you try to add / change new data what error are you getting? Or are the tables marked read-only? For example if you open the table in ARC is the + and - on the navigation toolbar greyed out? If...
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Hi Edgar, Thank you for your reply. The + and - in ADA are not grayed out. We are using Local Server. Attached are the log files from our application. I have also pasted them in below. Thank you...
View ArticleProblems with Degree Symbol
We have an update that is crashing on data that has a degree symbol. I have attached a sample of the data. Advantage Data Architect and Orion have no trouble displaying the character. From what I can...
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For Local Server, basically each application uses a different adslocal.cfg Within this file there is an ANSI Character Set and OEM Character set. As you are using Local Server each application is its...
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Hi Edgar, Thank you! At the moment this is a single user installation. We do not have not since 2010 used an adslocal.cfg or an ads.ini file. This has not caused us a problem. Therefore I am not...
View ArticleRe: Collation Errors for Installation in Australia
Yes I would start with this. Also, I believe that ARC by default creates one in it's directory so you may check there as well. Finally it may be helpful to use something like Process Mon from...
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Beginning with ADS 10 when using Unicode Advantage uses UTF-16 But I think it has more to do with what field type you are using. A CHAR, CICHAR, VARCHARFOX, MEMO are all ASCII field types. A NCHAR,...
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Hi Edgar, Here is the input you requested. Thank you for taking a look at this: the error appears to be happening when trying to save the data to Advantage. We are using Entity Framework with the...
View ArticleRe: Problems with Degree Symbol
So the error you are receiving is 5211 There is an error converting Unicode string to or from code page string. Some Unicode characters cannot be converted to code page characters. What this tells me...
View ArticleSybase ADS Pricing list
Hi everyone, I'm a D&T rep based out of Atlanta. One of my accounts has inquired about the latest pricing for Sybase ADS. Can you supply me with an updated list or tell me where to go to get one?...
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On the main SAP page (sap.com) There should be a contact us on the right hand side. It will present you with options such as chat, e-mail, phone (1-800-872-1727). You can ask for the Advantage...
View ArticleBest practice for upgrading from ADS 9.1 to ADS 11
So we will need start upgrading installs from Advantage Database Server (ADS) version 9 to ADS version 11. Is there a set of best practices? Certain procedures? How do we gracefully fall back if it...
View ArticleRe: Best practice for upgrading from ADS 9.1 to ADS 11
Rodney, My first recommendation is to read the "Effects of Upgrading" section of the help file. I put the links below.Effects of Upgrading to Version 10Effects of Upgrading to Version 11Effects of...
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When performing the upgrade install will it automatically remove all of the version 9 items or will it default to a side by side install? Do we need to / should do an uninstall first?ThanksRod
View ArticleRe: Best practice for upgrading from ADS 9.1 to ADS 11
It will automatically remove the version 9 components and "upgrade" to the newer version. Side by side is something special that needs to have some extra items run so it won't affect the existing....
View ArticleReason for Error "Unknown field type (28) encountered."
Hello, I'm from Germany, so sorry for my English first.I got the error "Unknown field type (28) encountered." when I runa simple "SELECT * FROM system.functions" on my ADD-Database.The solution for...
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For backwards compatibility the server will send different field types (i.e. char vs varchar, ansi vs unicode, etc). The server determines this based on the ACE (Advantage Client Version). By swapping...
View ArticleRe: Reason for Error "Unknown field type (28) encountered."
Hello Mr. Sherman, Thanks for your reply!I'm toying with the idea of appending missing fields in the source,like described in the comment in the ace.pas, but I think I have to waituntil all of our...
View ArticleUsing SAP Sybase Advantage Database Server in the Cloud Webcast
Does anyone know if this webcast from March 12, 2013 by Chris Franz is still available online anywhere?
View ArticleSQL server 2008 r2 to connect to SQL Server 2008 r2 running ADS 10.10
Have a situation where we currently are using SQL Server 2005 to connect to SQL Server 2008 r2 running ADS 10.10. We are using stored procedures with open query, linked server and data source...
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