ASA Getting Started
Introduction to Adaptive Server Anywhere
There are two versions of the Adaptive Server Anywhere database server included in the product:
The personal database server This server is provided for single-user, same-machine use: for example, as an embedded database server. It is also useful for development work.
The name of the personal server executable is as follows:
On UNIX operating systems, it is dbeng9.
On Windows, except Windows CE, it is dbeng9.exe.
The network database server In addition to the features of the personal server, the network server supports client/server communications across a network. It is provided for multi-user use.
The name of the network server executable is as follows:
On UNIX operating systems, it is dbsrv9.
On Windows, including Windows CE, it is dbsrv9.exe.
On Novell NetWare, the server is a NetWare Loadable Module (NLM) called dbsrv9.nlm.
The request-processing engine is identical in the two versions of the server. They support exactly the same SQL language, and exactly the same database features. The personal server does not support communications across a network, more than ten concurrent connections, or the use of more than two CPUs. Applications developed against a personal server work unchanged against a network server.