ASA Database Administration Guide
  Running the Database Server
    Introduction
      First steps

Start the database server

The way you start the database server varies slightly depending on the operating system you use. This section describes how to specify commands for the simple case of running a single database with default settings, on each supported operating system.

Notes 

• These commands start the personal server (dbeng9). To start a network server, simply replace dbeng9 with dbsrv9.

• If the database file is in the starting directory for the command, you do not need to specify path.

• If you do not specify a file extension in database-file, the extension .db is assumed.

To start the personal database server using default options (Windows)

1. Open a command prompt.

2. Type the following command:

   start dbeng9 path\database-file

   If you omit the database file, the Server startup options dialog appears, where you can locate a database file using a Browse button.

To start the personal database server using default options (UNIX)

1. Open a command prompt.

2. Type the following command:

   dbeng9 path/database-file

To start the personal database server using default options (NetWare)

• The database server for NetWare is a NetWare Loadable Module (NLM) (dbsrv9.nlm). A NLM is a program that you can run on your NetWare server. Load a database server on your NetWare server as follows:

  load dbsrv9.nlm path\database-file

  The database file must be on a NetWare volume. A typical filename is of the form DB:\database\sales.db.

  You can load the server from a client machine using the Novell remote console utility. See your Novell documentation for details.

  You can put the command into your Novell autoexec.ncf file so that Adaptive Server Anywhere loads automatically each time you start the NetWare server.

  There is no personal server for Novell NetWare, just a network server.