Summary: How to find the sybase database version.
Date: Around 2010
Refactor: 29 April 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Small howto on finding the Sybase version without logging into the database tools (isql). You'll need to run sybase.sh to load the sybase environment into your shell. After that you can run the dataserver -v command.
I use the sybase user to run that command, it has the sybase environment by default:
$ dataserver -v Adaptive Server Enterprise/15.0.2/EBF 15967 ESD#6/P/x86_64/Enterprise Linux/ase1502/2537/64-bit/FBO/Thu Oct 2 01:33:23 2008 Confidential property of Sybase, Inc. Copyright 1987, 2008 Sybase, Inc. All rights reserved. Unpublished rights reserved under U.S. copyright laws. This software contains confidential and trade secret information of Sybase, Inc. Use, duplication or disclosure of the software and documentation by the U.S. Government is subject to restrictions set forth in a license agreement between the Government and Sybase, Inc. or other written agreement specifying the Government's rights to use the software and any applicable FAR provisions, for example, FAR 52.227-19. Sybase, Inc. One Sybase Drive, Dublin, CA 94568, USA