Several developers at ServoyWorld asked when Sybase Central would be supported for Mac Intel machines. The Mac Intel platform will not be officially supported until SQL Anywhere v10 for the Mac is released, which is targeted for the end of the year.
Unofficially, you CAN use Sybase Central (and Interactive SQL) on Mac Intel platforms today. You simply need to make sure that Sybase Central uses the jConnect driver to connect to the database server. The default driver is the iAnywhere JDBC driver, which uses native code that hasn’t been ported to the Mac Intel platform yet. The jConnect driver is pure Java so it doesn’t have this problem.
Here’s how to do it…
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A Connect dialog opens when you choose to connect to a database.
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Select the “Advanced” tab in the Connect dialog.
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Choose the “jConnect 5” radio button in this tab pane.
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Ensure that you specify the server name and database name in the Database tab pane, as well as the userid and password in the Identification tab pane.
That’s it! You should be good to go.
I have attached two screen shots showing the Advanced and Database tab panes.
David