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About This Book
This guide, Installation Guide Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise,
provides:
• An overview of the Sybase® Adaptive Server™ Enterprise
installation infrastructure
• Instructions for installing and upgrading Adaptive Server, and
installing Backup Server™, Monitor Server, XP Server™,
jConnect™ for JDBC™, Java utilities, and client products, including
the Adaptive Server plug-in for Sybase Central™
• Instructions for installing optional Adaptive Server functionality,
such as auditing, and sample databases, and localization information
Audience This guide is written for Sybase System Administrators and other
qualified personnel who are familiar with their system’s environment,
networks, disk resources, and media devices.
Related documents The following documents comprise the Sybase Adaptive Server
Enterprise documentation:
• The release bulletin for your platform – contains last-minute
information that was too late to be included in the books.
A more recent version of the release bulletin may be available on the
World Wide Web. To check for critical product or document
information that was added after the release of the product CD, use
the Sybase Technical Library.
•The Installation Guide for your platform (this book)– describes
installation, upgrade, and configuration procedures for all Adaptive
Server and related Sybase products.
•Configuring Adaptive Server Enterprise for your platform – provides
instructions for performing specific configuration tasks for Adaptive
Server.
•What’s New in Adaptive Server Enterprise? – describes the new
features in Adaptive Server version 12.5, the system changes added
to support those features, and the changes that may affect your
existing applications.