Introducing SQL Anywhere Studio
The Architecture of Database Applications
You can use Adaptive Server Anywhere to build an installation with many applications, running on different machines, connected over a network to a single database server running on a separate machine. This is a client/server environment, and has the following architecture. The interface library is located on each client machine.
In this case the database server is the Adaptive Server Anywhere network database server which supports network communications. The database is also called a multi-user database.
No changes are needed to a client application for it to work in a client/server environment, except to identify the server to which it should connect.