CHAPTER 1 Installing Adaptive Server
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Rebuilding Adaptive Server
You may need to rebuild the databases created during the install process for the
following reasons:
• You want to use an alternative disk device for the database devices,
perhaps for faster disks.
• You need to change the size of the pages within the database.
You can rebuild the server in one of two ways:
•Using the bootstrap shell script in /Applications/Sybase/System/ASE-
12_5/install – you can edit this script to take action as necessary. The script
installs a new server using srvbuildres which is driven by a resource file.
You can edit the resource files used by the bootstrap script to override
default values for the installation.
• Using Server Build – a graphical interface to the srvbuildres utility. Server
Build collects input from you and uses it to create resource files used by
srvbuildres.
Changing the default character set, sort order or language
Adaptive Server supports a wide variety of character sets are supported and
messages can be localized to suit your particular user community. By default,
Adaptive Server is installed with a default character set of iso_1 (ISO 8859-1,
in ISO terminology), a binary sort order, and U.S. English as the default
language.
To display Adaptive Server error messages in a language other than U.S.
English (us_english), you must load the appropriate language module.
To change the default character set, sort order, or language, see the complete
discussion of the procedure in the System Administration Guide. We strongly
recommend that you read chapters 7 and 8 in that document. You can find this
book online at http://sybooks.sybase.com/asg1250e.html.
A simplified procedure for doing this is described here.
Make all changes to the default character set and sort order for a new Adaptive
Server before creating any user databases or making any changes to the
Sybase-supplied databases.