This manual, the Configuration Guide, provides instructions for performing specific configuration tasks for Sybase® Adaptive Server® Enterprise on UNIX platforms.
The operating system release levels for the UNIX platforms on which Adaptive Server is certified to execute is in the installation documentation or release bulletin for your platform.
This manual covers the following topics:
Instructions for reconfiguring certain attributes of your existing Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, Backup Server™, Adaptive Server Enterprise Monitor™, and XP Server™ to meet your specific needs.
Creating network connections.
Configuring optional functionality.
Performing operating system administration tasks.
Working with system administration issues that are relevant to Adaptive Server running on UNIX platforms. This manual supplements the System Administration Guide and the Performance and Tuning Guide.
Before configuring Adaptive Server according to the
instructions in this book, you should have a newly installed or
upgraded Adaptive Server on your system. If you do not, follow the
installation and upgrade instructions in the installation documentation
for your platform.
This manual is for System Administrators or other qualified installers who are familiar with their system’s environment, networks, disk resources, and media devices.
This manual contains the following chapters:
Chapter 1, “Introduction” is an overview of Adaptive Server and the configuration changes you might want to make to Adaptive Server after installing or upgrading the server.
Chapter 2, “Starting and Stopping Servers” describes how to start and stop Adaptive Server, Backup Server, Monitor Server, and XP Server.
Chapter 3, “Configuring the Operating System” describes how to set up your operating system to work with Adaptive Server.
Chapter 4, “Adaptive Server Default Configuration” provides information about the default parameter settings of Adaptive Server.
Chapter 5, “Setting Up Communications Across the Network” describes how to use the interfaces file to establish network connections for servers and clients.
Chapter 6, “Using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol as a Directory Service” provides information about using LDAP directory services to establish connections.
Chapter 7, “Customizing Localization for Adaptive Server” provides background information about Sybase’s localization support as well as task information for reconfiguring character sets, sort orders, and language modules.
Chapter 8, “Logging Error Messages and Events” describes how to use the error logging features of Adaptive Server.
Chapter 9, “Managing Adaptive Server Databases” provides information about the administration of Adaptive Server databases, including both routine tasks and performance and tuning considerations.
Chapter 10, “Adding Optional Functionality to Adaptive Server” provides instructions for adding optional functionality, such as auditing and the sample databases.
Chapter 11, “Managing Sybase Licenses for Adaptive Server: SySAM Overview,” discusses the Sybase license manager SySAM, how to manage Sybase licenses, Adaptive Server features that can be licensed, and how to add feature licenses when installing, upgrading or starting Adaptive Server.
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 Administration Guide – provides in-depth information about administering servers and databases. This manual includes instructions and guidelines for managing physical resources, security, user and system databases, and specifying character conversion, international language, and sort order settings.
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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The following sections describe conventions used in this manual.
SQL is a free-form language. There are no rules about the number of words you can put on a line or where you must break a line. However, for readability, all examples and most syntax statements in this manual are formatted so that each clause of a statement begins on a new line. Clauses that have more than one part extend to additional lines, which are indented. Complex commands are formatted using modified Backus Naur Form (BNF) notation.
Table 1 shows the conventions for syntax statements that appear in this manual:
Element |
Example |
|---|---|
Command names, procedure names, utility names, and other keywords display in sans serif font. |
select sp_configure |
Database names and datatypes are in sans serif font. |
master database |
Book names, file names, variables, and path names are in italics. |
System Administration Guide sql.ini file column_name $SYBASE/ASE directory |
Variables—or words that stand for values that you fill in—when they are part of a query or statement, are in italics in Courier font. |
select column_name from table_name where search_conditions |
Type parentheses as part of the command. |
compute row_aggregate (column_name) |
Double colon, equals sign indicates that the syntax is written in BNF notation. Do not type this symbol. Indicates “is defined as”. |
::= |
Curly braces mean that you must choose at least one of the enclosed options. Do not type the braces. |
{cash, check, credit}
|
Brackets mean that to choose one or more of the enclosed options is optional. Do not type the brackets. |
[cash | check | credit] |
The comma means you may choose as many of the options shown as you want. Separate your choices with commas as part of the command. |
cash, check, credit |
The pipe or vertical bar( | ) means you may select only one of the options shown. |
cash | check | credit |
An ellipsis (...) means that you can repeat the last unit as many times as you like. |
buy thing = price [cash | check | credit] [, thing = price [cash | check | credit] ]... You must buy at least one thing and give its price. You may choose a method of payment: one of the items enclosed in square brackets. You may also choose to buy additional things: as many of them as you like. For each thing you buy, give its name, its price, and (optionally) a method of payment. |
Syntax statements (displaying the syntax and all options for a command) appear as follows:
sp_dropdevice [device_name]
For a command with more options:
select column_name from table_name where search_conditions
In syntax statements, keywords (commands) are in normal font and identifiers are in lowercase. Italic font shows user-supplied words.
Examples showing the use of Transact-SQL commands are printed like this:
select * from publishers
Examples of output from the computer appear as follows:
pub_id pub_name city state ------- --------------------- ----------- ----- 0736 New Age Books Boston MA 0877 Binnet & Hardley Washington DC 1389 Algodata Infosystems Berkeley CA (3 rows affected)
In this manual, most of the examples are in lowercase. However, you can disregard case when typing Transact-SQL keywords. For example, SELECT, Select, and select are the same.
Adaptive Server’s sensitivity to the case of database objects, such as table names, depends on the sort order installed on Adaptive Server. You can change case sensitivity for single-byte character sets by reconfiguring the Adaptive Server sort order. For more information, see the System Administration Guide.
The following terms appear repeatedly throughout this book. For more detailed information about these and other terms, see the Glossary.
/work/sybase – is given as an example of the Sybase installation directory.
Text editor – refers to an ASCII text editor or any editor that can save files to text format.
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