ASA Database Administration Guide
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Connection parameters passed as connection strings

Connection parameters are passed to the interface library as a connection string. This string consists of a set of parameters, separated by semicolons:

parameter1=value1;parameter2=value2;...

In general, the connection string built up by an application and passed to the interface library does not correspond directly to the way a user enters the information. Instead, a user may fill in a dialog, or the application may read connection information from an initialization file.

Many of the Adaptive Server Anywhere utilities accept a connection string as the -c option and pass the connection string on to the interface library without change. For example, the following is a typical Collation utility (dbcollat) command line (which should be typed all on one line):

dbcollat -c "uid=DBA;pwd=SQL;dbn=asademo" c:\temp\asademo.col