- Exploring the Sybase galaxy
- System maintenance improvements
- Semantic partitions and very large database (VLDB) support
- Scrollable cursors
- Overview of changes to the query processing engine
- Detection and resolution of query performance issues
- Computed columns
- Functional indexes
- Capturing query processing metrics
- Graphical plan viewer
- Sybase software asset management (SySAM) 2.0
- Installation of ASE servers
- Multiple temporary databases
- The MDA tables
- Java, XML, and Web services in ASE