History
- Initially created by Watcom as Watcom SQL.
- Version 3: 1992
- Watcom acquired by PowerSoft in 1993; Watcom SQL shipped with their visual programming environment PowerBuilder
- Version 4: 1994 (Stored procedures, triggers)
- PowerSoft and Sybase merged in 1995: Watcom SQL was renamed SQL Anywhere.
- Version 5: 1995 (SQL Remote data replication; graphical administration tools)
- Version 6: 1998. Renamed Adaptive Server Anywhere. (multi-processor support, Java objects in the database)
- Version 6.0.2: 1999 (MobiLink data synchronization, UltraLite mobile database for Palm OS and Windows CE)
- Version 7: 2000 (dynamic cache, task scheduling and event handling, cross-platform administration tools)
- Version 8: 2001 (Volcano query optimizer, encrypted data storage and transmission)
- Version 9: 2003 (Index consultant, embedded HTTP server)
- Version 10: 2006 - renamed SQL Anywhere (high availability, intra-query parallelism, materialized views)
- Version 11: 2008 (full text search, BlackBerry support)
- Version 12: 2010 (support for spatial data)
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