Stopping the database server

You can stop the database server by:

Clicking Shutdown on the database server window.
Using the dbstop utility.

The dbstop utility is particularly useful in batch files, or for stopping a server on another machine. It requires a connection string in its command.

For more information on dbstop options, see Stopping a database server using the dbstop command-line utility.
Letting it shut down automatically by default when the application disconnects. (This only works if the server is a personal server started by an application connection string.)
Pressing q when the server display window has the focus on UNIX or NetWare machines.

To stop a server using the dbstop utility

Start a server. For example, the following command executed from the Adaptive Server Anywhere installation directory starts a server named Ottawa using the sample database:
```
dbsrv9 -n Ottawa asademo.db
```
Stop the server using dbstop:
```
dbstop -c "eng=Ottawa;uid=DBA;pwd=SQL"
```