dbstop stops a database server. The dbstop utility is a command-line utility only, available on both UNIX and Windows platforms.
In UNIX, dbstop can shut down a server on any node on the network. You must specify a server-name, as well as any connection parameters you specified when you started the server. Without the proper connection parameters, dbstop does not know how to connect to the server to tell it to shutdown.
The dbstop command-line options let you control whether a server is stopped, even if there are active connections.
On Windows platforms, you can quickly stop a database
server by clicking Shutdown on the server window
or by right-clicking the server icon in the taskbar and choosing Exit.
For a full discussion of all of the server shutdown methods and when you need to stop the database server, see the section “Stopping the database server” in Chapter 2, “Running Sybase IQ” in the System Administration Guide: Volume 1.
