ASA Database Administration Guide
The Database Server
The database server
Database server options
Suppress startup error dialogs.
{ dbsrv9 | dbeng9 } -qs ...
Windows only
This option suppresses startup error dialogs. Startup errors include errors such as:
Could not open/read database file: <database file>
A database server with that name has already started
On Windows platforms, if the engine is not being autostarted, these errors appear in a dialog and must be cleared before the server stops. These dialogs do not appear if the -qs switch is used.
If there is an error loading the language DLL, no dialog appears if -qs was specified on the command line and not in @environment-variable or @filename syntaxes. This error is not logged to the -o or -oe logs, but rather to the Windows Application Event Log (except on Window CE).