Types of Utilities

SAP^® Adaptive Server^® Enterprise (SAP ASE) provides utility programs of various types.

• Threaded Versions of Utilities
  SAP includes the _r versions of some of the utilities for use with threaded drivers.
• Installation or Configuration Utilities
  SAP ASE® includes various utilities for installation and configuration.
• Utilities for Languages, Character Sets, and Sort Orders
  SAP ASE includes various utilities to set languages, character sets and sort orders.
• Utilities to Start Servers
  SAP ASE includes various utilities to start servers manually.
• Database Creation and Manipulation Utilities
  SAP ASE includes various utilities to create and manipulate databases.
• Utilities to Gather Information
  SAP ASE includes various utilities to gather information:
• Tuning Utility
  qptune enables you to fix missing statistics and identify the best query plan, optimization goal, or other configuration settings, and apply them at the query or server level.
• Utility to Manage a Cluster
  (Cluster Edition only) Use the sybcluster utility to manage an SAP ASE shared-disk cluster. sybcluster provides a set of interactive, command line options for creating and managing a cluster.