This manual, the Sybase Adaptive Server System Administration Guide, describes how to administer and control Sybase® Adaptive Server® Enterprise databases independent of any specific database application.
This manual is for Sybase System Administrators and Database Owners.
This guide (System Administration Guide Volume 1) is comprised of two parts: Part One describes the concepts of system administration, Part Two discusses security administration issues. Part One includes the following chapters:
Chapter 1, “Overview of System Administration,” describes the structure of the Sybase system.
Chapter 2, “System and Optional Databases,” discusses the contents and function of the Adaptive Server system databases.
Chapter 3, “System Administration for Beginners,” summarizes important tasks that new System Administrators must perform.
Chapter 4, “Introduction to the Adaptive Server Plug-in for Sybase Central,” – describes how to start and use Sybase Central, a graphical user interface for managing Adaptive Server.
Chapter 5, “Setting Configuration Parameters,” summarizes the configuration parameters that you set with sp_configure, which control many aspects of Adaptive Server behavior.
Chapter 6, “Overview of Disk Resource Issues,” discusses Adaptive Server and Backup Server™ error handling and how to shut down servers and kill user processes.
Chapter 7, “Initializing Database Devices,” describes how to initialize database devices and assign devices to the default pool of devices.
Chapter 8, “Setting Database Options,” describes how to set database options.
Chapter 9, “Configuring Character Sets, Sort Orders, and Languages,” discusses international issues, such as the files included in the Language Modules and how to configure an Adaptive Server language, sort order, and character set.
Chapter 10, “Configuring Client/Server Character Set Conversions,” discusses character set conversion between Adaptive Server and clients in a heterogeneous environment.
Chapter 11, “Diagnosing System Problems,” discusses Adaptive Server and Backup Server error handling and shows how to shut down servers and kill user processes.
Part Two includes these chapters:
Chapter 12, “Introduction to Security,” introduces you to security concepts.
Chapter 13, “Getting Started With Security Administration in Adaptive Server,” provides an overview of the security features available in Adaptive Server.
Chapter 14, “Managing Adaptive Server Logins, Database Users, and Client Connections,” describes methods for managing Adaptive Server login accounts and database users.
Chapter 15, “Managing Remote Servers,” discusses the steps the System Administrator and System Security Officer of each Adaptive Server must execute to enable remote procedure calls (RPCs).
Chapter 16, “External Authentication,” describes the network-based security services that enable you to authenticate users and protect data transmitted among machines on a network.
Chapter 17, “Managing User Permissions,” describes the use and implementation of user permissions.
Chapter 18, “Auditing,” describes how to set up auditing for your installation.
Chapter 19, “Confidentiality of Data,” describes how to configure Adaptive Server to ensure that all data is secure and confidential.
Volume 2 of the System Administration Guide contains these chapters
Chapter 1, “Limiting Access to Server Resources,” explains how to create and manage resource limits with Adaptive Server.
Chapter 2, “Mirroring Database Devices,” describes how to mirror database devices for nonstop recovery from media failures.
Chapter 3, “Configuring Memory,” explains how to configure Adaptive Server to use the available memory on your system.
Chapter 4, “Configuring Data Caches,” discusses how to create named caches in memory and bind objects to those caches.
Chapter 5, “Managing Multiprocessor Servers,” explains how to use multiple CPUs with Adaptive Server and discusses system administration issues that are unique to symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) environments.
Chapter 6, “Creating and Managing User Databases,” discusses the physical placement of databases, tables, and indexes, and the allocation of space to them.
Chapter 7, “Database Mount and Unmount,” describes how to transport databases from a source Adaptive Server to a destination Adaptive Server.
Chapter 8, “Creating and Using Segments,” describes how to use segments, which are named collections of database devices, in databases.
Chapter 9, “Using the reorg Command,” describes how to use the reorg command.
Chapter 10, “Checking Database Consistency,” describes how to use the database consistency checker, dbcc, to detect and fix database problems.
Chapter 11, “Developing a Backup and Recovery Plan,” discusses the capabilities of the Backup Server and how to develop your backup strategy.
Chapter 12, “Backing Up and Restoring User Databases,” discusses how to recover user databases.
Chapter 13, “Restoring the System Databases,” discusses how to recover system databases.
Chapter 14, “Automatic Database Expansion,” describes how to configure databases to expand automatically when they run out of space.
Chapter 15, “Managing Free Space with Thresholds,” discusses managing space with thresholds.
The Sybase® Adaptive Server® Enterprise documentation set consists of the following:
The release bulletin for your platform – contains last-minute information that was too late to be included in the books.
A more recent version of the release bulletin may be available on the World Wide Web. To check for critical product or document information that was added after the release of the product CD, use the Sybase Technical Library.
The Installation Guide for your platform – describes installation, upgrade, and configuration procedures for all Adaptive Server and related Sybase products.
What’s New in Adaptive Server Enterprise? – describes the new features in Adaptive Server version 15.0, the system changes added to support those features, and changes that may affect your existing applications.
ASE Replicator User’s Guide – describes how to use the Adaptive Server Replicator feature of Adaptive Server to implement basic replication from a primary server to one or more remote Adaptive Servers.
Component Integration Services User’s Guide – explains how to use the Adaptive Server Component Integration Services feature to connect remote Sybase and non-Sybase databases.
The Configuration Guide for your platform – provides instructions for performing specific configuration tasks for Adaptive Server.
Full-Text Search Specialty Data Store User’s Guide – describes how to use the Full-Text Search feature with Verity to search Adaptive Server Enterprise data.
Glossary – defines technical terms used in the Adaptive Server documentation.
Historical Server User’s Guide – describes how to use Historical Server to obtain performance information for SQL Server® and Adaptive Server.
Java in Adaptive Server Enterprise – describes how to install and use Java classes as data types, functions, and stored procedures in the Adaptive Server database.
Job Scheduler User's Guide – provides instructions on how to install and configure, and create and schedule jobs on a local or remote Adaptive Server using the command line or a graphical user interface (GUI).
Messaging Service User’s Guide – describes how to useReal Time Messaging Services to integrate TIBCO Java Message Service and IBM WebSphere MQ messaging services with all Adaptive Server database applications.
Monitor Client Library Programmer’s Guide – describes how to write Monitor Client Library applications that access Adaptive Server performance data.
Monitor Server User’s Guide – describes how to use Monitor Server to obtain performance statistics from SQL Server and Adaptive Server.
Performance and Tuning Guide – is a series of four books for Adaptive Server version 12.5.x that explains how to tune Adaptive Server for maximum performance:
Basics – the basics for understanding and investigating performance questions in Adaptive Server.
Locking – describes how the various locking schemas can be used for improving performance in Adaptive Server.
Optimizer and Abstract Plans – describes how the optimizer processes queries and how abstract plans can be used to change some of the optimizer plans.
Monitoring and Analyzing – explains how statistics are obtained and used for monitoring and optimizing performance.
Quick Reference Guide – provides a comprehensive listing of the names and syntax for commands, functions, system procedures, extended system procedures, datatypes, and utilities in a pocket-sized book.
Reference Manual – is a series of four books that contains the following detailed Transact-SQL® information:
Building Blocks – Transact-SQL datatypes, functions, global variables, expressions, identifiers and wildcards, and reserved words.
Commands – Transact-SQL commands.
Procedures – Transact-SQL system procedures, catalog stored procedures, system extended stored procedures, and dbcc stored procedures.
Tables – Transact-SQL system tables and dbcc tables.
System Administration Guide – provides in-depth information about administering servers and databases. This manual includes instructions and guidelines for managing physical resources, security, user and system databases, and specifying character conversion, international language, and sort order settings.
System Tables Diagram – illustrates system tables and their entity relationships in a poster format. Available only in print version.
Transact-SQL User’s Guide – documents Transact-SQL, Sybase’s enhanced version of the relational database language. This manual serves as a textbook for beginning users of the database management system. This manual also contains descriptions of the pubs2 and pubs3 sample databases.
Using Adaptive Server Distributed Transaction Management Features – explains how to configure, use, and troubleshoot Adaptive Server DTM features in distributed transaction processing environments.
Using Sybase Failover in a High Availability System – provides instructions for using Sybase’s Failover to configure an Adaptive Server as a companion server in a high availability system.
Unified Agent and Agent Management Console – Describes the Unified Agent, which provides runtime services to manage, monitor and control distributed Sybase resources.
Utility Guide – documents the Adaptive Server utility programs, such as isql and bcp, which are executed at the operating system level.
Web Services User’s Guide – explains how to configure, use, and troubleshoot Web Services for Adaptive Server.
XA Interface Integration Guide for CICS, Encina, and TUXEDO – provides instructions for using the Sybase DTM XA interface with X/Open XA transaction managers.
XML Services in Adaptive Server Enterprise – describes the Sybase native XML processor and the Sybase Java-based XML support, introduces XML in the database, and documents the query and mapping functions that comprise XML Services.
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