The server class you specify in the CREATE SERVER statement determines the behavior of a remote connection. The server classes give SQL Anywhere detailed server capability information. SQL Anywhere formats SQL statements specific to a server's capabilities.

There are two categories of server classes:

• ODBC-based server classes
• JDBC-based server classes (deprecated)

Each server class has a set of unique characteristics that you need to know to configure the server for remote data access.

You should refer both to information generic to the server class category (JDBC-based or ODBC-based), and to the information specific to the individual server class.