Glossary of term specific to scripting languages.
- Client-Library – part of Open Client, a collection of routines for use in
writing client applications. Client-Library is designed to accommodate
cursors and other advanced features in the Sybase product line.
- CPAN – Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. The Web site that holds
a large collection of Perl software and documentation. See http://www.cpan.org.
- CS-Library – included with both the Open Client and Open Server
products, a collection of utility routines that are useful to both
Client-Library and Server-Library applications.
- CT-Library – (CT-Lib API) is part of the Open Client suite and is
required to let an scripting application connect to Adaptive Server.
- DBD – database vendor-specific-driver that translates DBI database
API calls into a form that is understood by the target database SDK.
- DBI – generic core database API that is database-vendor-agnostic
and is the current standard for database access in a Perl application. See
http://dbi.perl.org.
- Driver – the collection of Perl and C code that constitutes
DBD::SybaseASE.
- Extension or module – the Perl language can be extended by modules that are
written in Perl or a combination of Perl and C. In this document, extension
and module denote the same.
- Perl directory tree – is one of:
- The complete Perl installation that is installed as
a binary module when the system is configured and has its operating
system installed. A complete Perl installation is sometimes called
the system (Perl) tree and owned by a system account (root,
admin).
- A private Perl (directory) tree, which has been
built from source by a user other than the system account and is
usually installed in a different location than the system Perl tree.
This allows for new feature and bug-fix testing without compromising
the system tree. A private directory tree is usually owned by the
account that built the tree.
- Perl script – Perl is a scripting language that is widely used in system
and database administration. See http://www.perl.org.
- thread – a path of execution through Open Server application and
library code and the path’s associated stack space, state information, and
event handlers.
- Transact-SQL – an enhanced version of the database language SQL.
Applications can use Transact-SQL to communicate with Adaptive Server
Enterprise.