Shutting Down the Database Server

Use Sybase Central or Interactive SQL to stop a server.

Do one of the following:

To stop a server with...	Do this...
Sybase Central	From the File menu, choose Stop server. Right-click the server, and choose Stop Server.
Interactive SQL	Use the STOP ENGINE statement. In Interactive SQL, run: STOP ENGINE [database-server-name] [UNCONDITIONALLY] The STOP ENGINE statement stops the specified database server. If you supply the UNCONDITIONALLY keyword, the database server is stopped even if there are other connections to the database server. By default, the database server will not be stopped if there are other connections to it.

To stop a server with...

Do this...

Sybase Central

From the File menu, choose Stop server.
Right-click the server, and choose Stop Server.

Interactive SQL

Use the STOP ENGINE statement.

In Interactive SQL, run:

STOP ENGINE [database-server-name] [UNCONDITIONALLY]

The STOP ENGINE statement stops the specified database server. If you supply the UNCONDITIONALLY keyword, the database server is stopped even if there are other connections to the database server. By default, the database server will not be stopped if there are other connections to it.