SQL Anywhere and Adaptive Server Enterprise use different models for managing devices and disk space, reflecting the different uses for the two products. While Adaptive Server Enterprise sets out a comprehensive resource management scheme using a variety of Transact-SQL statements, SQL Anywhere manages its own resources automatically, and its databases are regular operating system files.

SQL Anywhere does not support Transact-SQL DISK statements, such as DISK INIT, DISK MIRROR, DISK REFIT, DISK REINIT, DISK REMIRROR, and DISK UNMIRROR.

For information about disk management, see Working with database files.