Upgrading to Adaptive Server 15.0 should not affect third-party applications or in-house applications that access the database for normal DML and query operations. However, system table and function changes may cause problems for third-party tools or custom applications that perform DDL or access the system catalogs.
For example, previous releases of Embarcadero’s DBArtisan that were compatible with Adaptive Server 12.5 included a widely-used feature in which the object browser displayed the table names along with the number of rows in the table. This row count was derived by using the rowcnt function, which has now been deprecated. As a result, if you use these versions of DBArtisan, you may be surprised to see that your 15.0 server is “missing all the data,” as DBArtisan reports 0 rows for every table, in addition to a large number of warnings. Although Sybase allows the deprecated function for compatibility reasons, a warning message is returned.
Contact your thirdparty utility vendors to see when they are releasing a version compatible with Adaptive Server 15.0.
