ASA Database Administration Guide
File Locations and Installation Settings
When you install Adaptive Server Anywhere, several directories may be created. Some of the files in these directories are essential, and others are not. This section describes the directory structure.
Adaptive Server Anywhere software, whether you receive it as a product or bundled as part of another product, is installed under a single installation directory. The tools provided with the Adaptive Server Anywhere product, however, are installed in other directories. This section describes only the installation directory structure for Adaptive Server Anywhere itself.
The Adaptive Server Anywhere installation directory itself holds several items, including the following:
The sample database The sample database is held in the file asademo.db.
Read Me First A Read Me First file named readme.txt holds late-breaking information.
For platforms other than Novell NetWare and Windows CE, there are several directories under the installation directory:
Executable directories There is a separate directory for each operating system, which holds executables, dynamic link libraries, and help files.
On Windows except Windows CE, these files are installed in the win32 or win64 directory. If you are using UNIX, they are installed in the bin directory. On NetWare, the executables are stored in the installation directory itself.
You will not have all these directories on your machine; you will have only the ones required for the operating system version you installed.
Java directory Java base classes are stored in this directory.
ProcDebug directory The stored procedure debugger is stored in this directory.
Scripts directory The scripts directory contains SQL scripts that are used by the database administration utilities and as examples. With the exception the custom.SQL script, do not edit these scripts. If the scripts directory is not present, the administration utilities will not work.
Samples directories This holds separate directories for a variety of samples.
h directory The h directory contains header files for ESQL and ODBC database development.
On Novell NetWare, all files are installed to a single directory on the server. Throughout this documentation, when reference is made to files in subdirectories of the installation directory, the file on NetWare is in the installation directory itself.
On Windows CE, all files are installed to the installation directory, and no subdirectories are created. The exception is that all DLLs are installed into the \Windows directory.