Jeffrey Garbus - Administrators Guide to SYBASE ASE 12.5 (Jeffrey Garbus Official Sybase Ase 12.5 Library)

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Jeffrey Garbus
Alvin Chang
Gary Tyrrell
Penny Garbus
Contributing authors: Brian Davignon, Rick Kinnaird, Christine Lindsay, Jim Nimmo, Sheri Page, and Brian Taylor

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Administrator's guide to Sybase ASE 12.5 / by Jeffrey Garbus ... [et al.]
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 1-55622-307-2 (pb)
1. Client/server computing. 2. Sybase. I. Garbus, Jeffrey R.
QA76.9.C55 A36 2001
005.75'8--dc21 2001057364

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For my love
Jeff Garbus
To Helen, for her time, patience, and indulgence.
Gary Tyrrell
For all my parents, George, Bea, Sharon, Stanley,
and my kids, Gillian, Max, Devon, Brandon.
Penny Garbus

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Jeff Garbus' background includes a B.S. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and work experience from PCs to mainframes and back again. He has many years of Microsoft and Sybase SQL Server experience, with a special emphasis on assisting clients in migrating from existing systems to pilot and large-scale projects. He is well known in the industry, having spoken at user conferences and user groups for many years, written articles and columns for many magazines nationally and internationally, as well as having written several books. Recently his focus has been on Very Large Databases, data warehousing, training, and remote database administration.

Jeff has been in consulting for fourteen years, training for nine, and in the software business for eighteen. He has a demonstrated talent for staying at the leading edge of technology, as well as transferring his knowledge to others.

Jeff currently is CEO of Soaring Eagle Consulting, an RDBMS consulting and training firm based in Tampa, which specializes in solving business problems as well as performance problems. Soaring Eagle now offers remote database administration services.

Gary Tyrrell is a Principal Instructor with Sybase, where he teaches a wide variety of courses on ASE, ASA, Replication Server, SQL, and database design. He is not the same Gary Tyrrell from the famous 1982 StanfordCalifornia game, so please stop asking him what happened to the trombone.

Alvin Chang is a technical trainer, author, and consultant working for Soaring Eagle Consulting, a Tampa-based consulting and training firm. He has taught Adaptive Server Enterprise throughout the United States. Currently specializing in Sybase and Microsoft System Administration, Alvin started as a technical trainer for products like Microsoft Office, Lotus Smartsuite, and Lotus Notes before moving into RDBMSs. This is his fifth book.

He can be reached at alvin@soaringeagleltd.com.

As a technical writer and project lead for Soaring Eagle Consulting, Penny Garbus has written literally thousands of pages of Sybase training over the last several years, from versions 10 through 12.5.

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