ASA Database Administration Guide
Database Administration Utilities
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:
Case sensitivity or insensitivity
Storage as an encrypted file
Treatment of trailing blanks in comparisons
Page size
Collation sequence
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:
From Sybase Central, using the Create Database wizard.
At the command prompt, using the dbinit command. This is useful for incorporating into batch or command files.
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