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ASA Database Administration Guide
  Database Administration Utilities

The Initialization utility


With the Initialization utility, you can initialize (create) a database. A number of database attributes are specified at initialization and cannot be changed later except by unloading, reinitializing, and rebuilding the entire database. These database attributes include:

In addition, the choice of whether to use a transaction log and a transaction log mirror is made at initialization. This choice can be changed later using the Transaction Log utility.

Exit codes are 0 (success) or non-zero (failure).

You can access the Initialization utility in the following ways:

For more information about creating a database, see CREATE DATABASE statement.


Creating a database using the Create Database wizard
Creating a database using the dbinit command-line utility

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