START SERVER AS database-server-name [ STARTLINE command-string ]

The START SERVER statement starts a database server. If you want to specify a set of options for the database server, use the STARTLINE keyword together with a command string. Valid command strings are those that conform to the database server description in The SQL Anywhere database server.

START ENGINE is accepted for compatibility reasons, but is deprecated.

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• STOP SERVER statement
• The SQL Anywhere database server
• Using Interactive SQL

Start a database server named sample without starting any databases on it.

START SERVER AS sample;

The following example shows the use of a STARTLINE clause.

START SERVER AS eng1 STARTLINE 'dbsrv12 -c 8M';