The SAP ASE server creates a new database by copying the model database.
You can customize model by adding tables, stored procedures, user-defined datatypes, and other objects, and by changing database option settings. New databases inherit these objects and settings from model.
To guarantee recoverability, create database must clear every page that was not initialized when the model database was copied. This may take several minutes, depending on the size of the database and the speed of your system.
If you are creating a database to load a database dump into it, you can use the for load option to skip the page-clearing step. This makes database creation considerably faster.