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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by pjmlp on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @02:04AM (#47597368)
I wrote a connector for Sybase back in 2000, based on our existing one for MS SQL Server 7, and some things had already changed on the protocol level.

I don't remember exactly what and why, just that for some specific DML commands another kind of connection was required.

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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by CaptainZapp on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @06:13AM (#47598943)
The split must have happened in the mid nineties (I think) with SQL Server 6 and Sybase 10. The next version after 4.9.

It's notable that 10 was the worst Sybase version, ever.

Source: I worked for Sybase Professional Services from 95 - 99.

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