ASA Programming Guide
Embedded SQL Programming
Library function reference
unsigned int db_start_database( SQLCA * sqlca, char * parms );
sqlca A pointer to a SQLCA structure. For information, see The SQL Communication Area (SQLCA).
parms A NULL-terminated string containing a semi-colon-delimited list of parameter settings, each of the form KEYWORD=value. For example,
"UID=DBA;PWD=SQL;DBF=c:\\db\\mydatabase.db"
For an available list of connection parameters, see Connection parameters.
Start a database on an existing server if the database is not already running. The steps carried out to start a database are described in Starting a personal server
The return value is true if the database was already running or successfully started. Error information is returned in the SQLCA.
If a user ID and password are supplied in the parameters, they are ignored.
The permission required to start and stop a database is set on the server command line. For information, see The database server.