Sybase 12.4.2 User Manual

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CHAPTER 2 Running Adaptive Server IQ

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* Not supported in ODBC connections

** Verbose form of keyword not supported in DSN and FILEDSN connection
parameters

Notes

Boolean (true or false) arguments are either YES, ON, 1, or TRUE if true,
or NO, OFF, 0, or FALSE if false.

Connection parameters and their values are case insensitive.

The connection parameters used by the interface library can be obtained
from the following places (in order of precedence):

Connection string

SQLCONNECT environment variable

Data sources

The server name must be composed of characters in the range 1 to 127 of
the ASCII character set. There is no such limitation on other parameters.
For more information on the character set issues, see “Connection strings
and character sets”.

The following rules govern the priority of parameters:

Logfile

LOG

String

Send client error
messages and
debugging messages to
a file.

Password **

PWD

String

Provide a password for
the connection

ServerName

ENG

String

Specify server to
connect to

StartLine

Start

String

Start a database server
running from an
application (for
embedded databases).

Unconditional

UNC

Yes/No

Stop a server even if
connections are active

Userid **

UID

String

User ID with which you
log on to the database

Parameter

Short
form

Argument

Description

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