ASA Database Administration Guide
Connecting to a Database
Troubleshooting connections
To establish a connection, Adaptive Server Anywhere carries out the following steps in order:
Locate the interface library The client application must locate the ODBC driver or Embedded SQL interface library.
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.
Locate a server Using the connection parameters, Adaptive Server Anywhere locates a database server on your machine or over a network.
Locate the database Adaptive Server Anywhere locates the database you want to connect to.
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.