Sybase 12.4.2 - Manual (Page 38)

The utility database
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The date and time of the software build appears in the version string in ISO
datetime format:
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss where
The message log continues to exist until you drop the database. If your message
log ever becomes too large, you can archive it while no users are connected to
the database, and then create a new, empty dbname.iqmsg file before allowing
another user to connect.
The utility database
The utility database is essentially a database that never holds data. The database
server uses it at times when it needs a database to connect to, but either no real
database exists, or none should be running. Adaptive Server IQ installation
creates the
utility database automatically.
Be sure you do not delete this database. You need it to do any of these things:
• Start the database server using the START ENGINE command with no
database specified
• Create or drop a database when you have no other database to connect to
• Start the database server or connect to a database when any other databases
you have are either corrupt or unavailable due to media failure
• Restore a database
By default, the utility database has the user ID dba and the password sql . You
can change these to other values during installation, or later by editing the
connection parameters in the util_db.ini file in your executable directory.
YYYY 4-digit year
MM 2-digit month number (0-12)
DD 2-digit day of month number (0-31)
hh 2-digit numbmer of complete hours that have passed since
midnight (00-23)
mm 2-digit number of complete minutes that have passed since
the start of the hour (00-59)
ss 2-digit number of complete seconds that have passed since
the start of the minute (00-59)