Clients, such as Sybase Central and Open Client, are used to access Adaptive Server. See the Open Client/Server Configuration Guide for Desktop Platforms for more information.
Sybase Central allows you to connect to Adaptive Server via client connections. You can use Sybase Central to connect to remote servers, local servers (installed on the same machine), and multiple servers. See “Configuring network connections for client products”. Before you use the plug-in, restart your computer to implement changes made to the PATH and CLASSPATH environment variables during installation.
The Sybase PC-Client CD includes Open Client software for Windows. Several products, such as the Adaptive Server plug-in and SQL Advantage, require Open Client runtime. Monitor Client Library requires Open Client/C with the SDK option.
Some applications do not connect to Adaptive Server directly through the Open Client software but through the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver, or the jConnect driver instead. For example, PowerDesigner connects through the ODBC driver.
See Configuration Guide for more information.
ODBC and OLEDB require the Microsoft Data Access Component (MDAC). You can download it from the Microsoft Web site.
