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ASA Database Administration Guide
  Connecting to a Database
    Troubleshooting connections

The steps in establishing a connection


To establish a connection, Adaptive Server Anywhere carries out the following steps in order:

  1. Locate the interface library    The client application must locate the ODBC driver or Embedded SQL interface library.

  2. Assemble a list of connection parameters    Since connection parameters may appear in several places (such as data sources, a connection string assembled by the application, or an environment variable) Adaptive Server Anywhere assembles the parameters into a single list.

  3. Locate a server    Using the connection parameters, Adaptive Server Anywhere locates a database server on your machine or over a network.

  4. Locate the database    Adaptive Server Anywhere locates the database you want to connect to.

  5. Start a personal server    If Adaptive Server Anywhere fails to locate a server, it attempts to start a personal database server and load the database.

The following sections describe each of these steps in detail.


Contents Index Troubleshooting connections Locating the interface library