Sybase 12.5.X, MAC OS X Contents

Contents

About This Book............................................................................................................................ v

System requirements....................................................................... 1

Preinstallation system setup ............................................................ 1

Upgrading from the early adopter release................................. 2

Network setup ........................................................................... 2

Installing from a CD.......................................................................... 3

Downloading the software................................................................ 3

Installation........................................................................................ 4

Installation on Xserve..................................................................... 10

Release contents ........................................................................... 11

Features not yet available....................................................... 12

Post-installation tasks .................................................................... 12

Post-installation topics............................................................. 12

Entering license keys..................................................................... 13

Environment variables.................................................................... 16

Viewing servers that are running on your network......................... 17

Verifying that you can connect to servers...................................... 18

Connecting to Adaptive Server via Sybase Central....................... 21

Setting the System Administrator password................................... 21

Starting and stopping Adaptive Server........................................... 22

Rebuilding Adaptive Server............................................................ 23

Changing the default character set, sort order or language........... 23

Changing the default character set and sort order.................. 24

Changing the default language............................................... 24

Installing online help for Transact-SQL syntax............................... 24

Online syntax help: sp_syntax................................................. 24

Default device for the sybsyntax database.............................. 25

Installing sybsyntax................................................................. 25

Sybase XP Server.......................................................................... 27

Starting Sybase services automatically.......................................... 27

Sybase SNMP subagent................................................................ 28

Installation............................................................................... 28