Mounting and Unmounting a Fully Encrypted Database

You cannot mount a database that is being encrypted or decrypted.

You cannot mount an encrypted database.

Do not use the umount database command on an encrypted database; the command fails and SAP ASE displays a message similar to:
Could not unmount encrypted database 'mydatabase'.
To unmount an encrypted database, decrypt it first.
Parent topic: Full Database Encryption
Related concepts
Decrypt an Encrypted Database