SYBASE Developer (ASE 15) Survival Guide is an all - embracing guide which though aiming to help both beginners and advanced level professionals gain a thorough understanding of Sybase, will also be useful for aspirants of Sybase ASE SQL Developer Professional certification exam. Topics for beginners include Logical and Physical design, normalization, primary key, constraints, DDL and DML; whereas for intermediate and advanced level professionals, key areas covered are Stored procedure, Triggers, Performance and Tuning Basics, Query optimization process, Index, Query optimization engine, Partition, locking, and many more. Whats new in ASE 15: In addition to the topics covered in previous version of Sybase ASE, this book includes details on new features of the ASE 15 version, including: -Local and global index -Scrollable cursor -New join types -ASE 15 optimization goals and -New commands for getting optimizer information.