This installation guide contains information about how to install and configure Adaptive Server version 15.0.2. See the following chapters for detailed information about how to install, upgrade, and troubleshoot your Adaptive Server:
For information about SySAM 2.0 requirements, Adaptive Server editions and specifications, and product descriptions and directory lay outs, see Chapter 1, “Overview.”
For information about installing Adaptive Server and its components, see Chapter 2, “Installing Adaptive Server” and Chapter 4, “Installing Sybase PC-Client Products.” For post-installation tasks see Chapter 3, “Post-Installation Tasks.”
For information about upgrading Adaptive Server from previous versions, see Chapter 5, “Upgrading Adaptive Server.”
For information about troubleshooting, see Chapter 8, “Troubleshooting,” and Chapter 7, “Troubleshooting SySAM Issues.”
For information about uninstalling Adaptive Server, see Chapter 9, “Removing Adaptive Server.”
WARNING! Before you run Adaptive Server version 15.0.2 on 32-bit Windows platforms, you must either:
Install Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, or
Download a patch called vcredist.exe referred to in Microsoft Knowledge Base article # 259403. Find the patch at the Microsoft Web site
WARNING! Before you Install Adaptive Server Version 15.0.2 on 64-bit platform, you must either:
Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 or
Download and install the patch Microsoft Web site.
