This manual, the Sybase Adaptive Server System Administration Guide, describes how to administer and control Sybase® Adaptive Server® Enterprise databases independent of any specific database application.
This manual is for Sybase System Administrators and Database Owners.
This manual contains the following chapters:
Chapter 1, “Overview of System Administration,” describes the structure of the Sybase system.
Chapter 2, “System and Optional Databases,” discusses the contents and function of the Adaptive Server system databases.
Chapter 3, “System Administration for Beginners,” summarizes important tasks that new System Administrators need to perform.
Chapter 4, “Setting Configuration Parameters,” summarizes the configuration parameters that you set with sp_configure, which control many aspects of Adaptive Server behavior.
Chapter 5, “Diagnosing System Problems,” discusses Adaptive Server and Backup Server™ error handling and shows how to shut down servers and kill user processes.
Chapter 6, “Limiting Access to Server Resources,” explains how to create and manage resource limits with Adaptive Server.
Chapter 7, “Configuring Character Sets, Sort Orders, and Languages,” discusses international issues, such as the files included in the Language Modules and how to configure an Adaptive Server language, sort order, and character set.
Chapter 8, “Configuring Client/Server Character Set Conversions,” discusses character set conversion between Adaptive Server and clients in a heterogeneous environment.
Chapter 9, “Security Administration,” provides an overview of the security features available in Adaptive Server.
Chapter 10, “Managing Adaptive Server Logins, Database Users, and Client Connections,” describes methods for managing Adaptive Server login accounts and database users.
Chapter 11, “Auditing,” describes how to set up auditing for your installation.
Chapter 12, “Managing User Permissions,” describes the use and implementation of user permissions.
Chapter 13, “Managing Remote Servers,” discusses the steps the System Administrator and System Security Officer of each Adaptive Server must execute to enable remote procedure calls (RPCs).
Chapter 14, “Using Kerberos, DCE, and Windows NT LAN Manager,” describes the network-based security services that enable you to authenticate users and protect data transmitted among machines on a network.
Chapter 15, “Overview of Disk Resource Issues,” provides an overview of Adaptive Server disk resource issues.
Chapter 16, “Initializing Database Devices,” describes how to initialize and use database devices.
Chapter 17, “Mirroring Database Devices,” describes how to mirror database devices for nonstop recovery from media failures.
Chapter 18, “Configuring Memory,” explains how to configure Adaptive Server to use the available memory on your system.
Chapter 19, “Configuring Data Caches,” discusses how to create named caches in memory and bind objects to those caches.
Chapter 20, “Managing Multiprocessor Servers,” explains how to use multiple CPUs with Adaptive Server and discusses system administration issues that are unique to symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) environments.
Chapter 21, “Creating and Managing User Databases,” discusses the physical placement of databases, tables, and indexes, and the allocation of space to them.
Chapter 22, “Database Mount and Unmount,” describes how to transport databases from a source Adaptive Server to a destination Adaptive Server.
Chapter 23, “Setting Database Options,” describes how to set database options.
Chapter 24, “Creating and Using Segments,” describes how to use segments, which are named collections of database devices, in databases.
Chapter 25, “Using the reorg Command,” describes how to use the reorg command.
Chapter 26, “Checking Database Consistency,” describes how to use the database consistency checker, dbcc, to detect and fix database problems.
Chapter 27, “Developing a Backup and Recovery Plan,” discusses the capabilities of the Backup Server and how to develop your backup strategy.
Chapter 28, “Backing Up and Restoring User Databases,” discusses how to recover user databases.
Chapter 29, “Restoring the System Databases,” discusses how to recover system databases.
Chapter 30, “Automatic Database Expansion,” describes how to configure databases to expand automatically when they run out of space.
Chapter 31, “Managing Free Space with Thresholds,” discusses managing space with thresholds.
The Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise documentation set consists of the following:
The release bulletin for your platform – contains last-minute information that was too late to be included in the books.
A more recent version of the release bulletin may be available on the World Wide Web. To check for critical product or document information that was added after the release of the product CD, use the Sybase Technical Library.
The Installation Guide for your platform – describes installation, upgrade, and configuration procedures for all Adaptive Server and related Sybase products.
What’s New in Adaptive Server Enterprise? – describes the new features in Adaptive Server version 12.5.1, the system changes added to support those features, and the changes that may affect your existing applications.
ASE Replicator User’s Guide – describes how to use the ASE Replicator feature of Adaptive Server to implement basic replication from a primary server to one or more remote Adaptive Servers.
Component Integration Services User’s Guide – explains how to use the Adaptive Server Component Integration Services feature to connect remote Sybase and non-Sybase databases.
Configuring Adaptive Server Enterprise for your platform – provides instructions for performing specific configuration tasks for Adaptive Server.
EJB Server User’s Guide – explains how to use EJB Server to deploy and execute Enterprise JavaBeans in Adaptive Server.
Error Messages and Troubleshooting Guide – explains how to resolve frequently occurring error messages and describes solutions to system problems frequently encountered by users.
Full-Text Search Specialty Data Store User’s Guide – describes how to use the Full-Text Search feature with Verity to search Adaptive Server Enterprise data.
Glossary – defines technical terms used in the Adaptive Server documentation.
Historical Server User’s Guide – describes how to use Historical Server to obtain performance information for SQL Server® and Adaptive Server.
Java in Adaptive Server Enterprise – describes how to install and use Java classes as data types, functions, and stored procedures in the Adaptive Server database.
Job Scheduler User's Guide – provides instructions on how to install and configure, and create and schedule jobs on a local or remote Adaptive Server using the command line or a graphical user interface (GUI).
Monitor Client Library Programmer’s Guide – describes how to write Monitor Client Library applications that access Adaptive Server performance data.
Monitor Server User’s Guide – describes how to use Monitor Server to obtain performance statistics from SQL Server and Adaptive Server.
Performance and Tuning Guide – is a series of four books that explains how to tune Adaptive Server for maximum performance:
Basics – the basics for understanding and investigating performance questions in Adaptive Server.
Locking – describes how the various locking schemas can be used for improving performance in Adaptive Server.
Optimizer and Abstract Plans – describes how the optimizer processes queries and how abstract plans can be used to change some of the optimizer plans.
Monitoring and Analyzing – explains how statistics are obtained and used for monitoring and optimizing performance.
Quick Reference Guide – provides a comprehensive listing of the names and syntax for commands, functions, system procedures, extended system procedures, datatypes, and utilities in a pocket-sized book.
Reference Manual – is a series of four books that contains the following detailed Transact-SQL® information:
Building Blocks – Transact-SQL datatypes, functions, global variables, expressions, identifiers and wildcards, and reserved words.
Commands – Transact-SQL commands.
Procedures – Transact-SQL system procedures, catalog stored procedures, system extended stored procedures, and dbcc stored procedures.
Tables – Transact-SQL system tables and dbcc tables.
System Tables Diagram – illustrates system tables and their entity relationships in a poster format. Available only in print version.
Transact-SQL User’s Guide – documents Transact-SQL, Sybase’s enhanced version of the relational database language. This manual serves as a textbook for beginning users of the database management system. This manual also contains descriptions of the pubs2 and pubs3 sample databases.
Using Adaptive Server Distributed Transaction Management Features – explains how to configure, use, and troubleshoot Adaptive Server DTM features in distributed transaction processing environments.
Using Sybase Failover in a High Availability System – provides instructions for using Sybase’s Failover to configure an Adaptive Server as a companion server in a high availability system.
Utility Guide – documents the Adaptive Server utility programs, such as isql and bcp, which are executed at the operating system level.
Web Services User’s Guide – explains how to configure, use, and troubleshoot Web Services for Adaptive Server.
XA Interface Integration Guide for CICS, Encina, and TUXEDO – provides instructions for using the Sybase DTM XA interface with X/Open XA transaction managers.
XML Services in Adaptive Server Enterprise – describes the Sybase native XML processor and the Sybase Java-based XML support, introduces XML in the database, and documents the query and mapping functions that comprise XML Services.
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