Contents Index Personal applications and embedded databases Introduction to Adaptive Server Anywhere

ASA Getting Started
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    How the pieces fit together

Client/server applications and multi-user databases


You can use Adaptive Server Anywhere to build an installation with many applications running on different machines, connected over a network to a single database server running on a separate machine. This is a client/server environment, and has the following architecture. The interface library is located on each client machine.

Client/server application architecture.

In this case, the database server is the Adaptive Server Anywhere network database server, which supports network communications. The database is also called a multi-user database.

No changes are needed to a client application for it to work in a client/server environment, except to identify the server to which it should connect.


Contents Index Personal applications and embedded databases Introduction to Adaptive Server Anywhere