How to Reset Adaptive Server to Its Default Configuration

Whenever you make a change to your configuration values using sp_configure, Adaptive Server saves the old configuration file under the name servername.sequential_number. This means that your default configuration should exist in one of these files.

If you successfully locate the desired configuration file, do the following:

  1. Name the current servername.cfg file to servername.cfg.old.

  2. Rename the file you located to servername.cfg.

  3. Restart Adaptive Server.

If you are unable to locate the desired configuration file, do the following:

  1. Rename the servername.cfg file in your Sybase home directory to servername.cfg.old.

  2. Start Adaptive Server without specifying a configuration file name.

Adaptive Server will use the default configuration and create a new configuration file if there is no servername.cfg file available at start-up time.