Chapter 14. Utilities and Options Reference

Separately licensable option required

Strong database encryption using AES_FIPS requires that you obtain the separately-licensable SQL Anywhere Studio security option and is subject to export regulations.

To order this component, see “Separately-licensable components”

[Introducing SQL Anywhere Studio, page 5].

Specify encryption key (-ek)This option allows you to create a strongly encrypted database by specifying an encryption key directly in the command. The algorithm used to encrypt the database is AES or AES_FIPS as specified by the -ea option. If you specify the -ek option without specifying -ea, the AES algorithm is used.

Caution

Protect your key! Be sure to store a copy of your key in a safe location. A lost key will result in a completely inaccessible database, from which there is no recovery.

The following are invalid for database encryption keys:

keys that begin with white space or single or double quotes

keys that end with white space

keys that contain semicolons

Prompt for encryption key (-ep)This option allows you to specify that you want to create a strongly encrypted database by inputting the encryption key in a dialog box. This provides an extra measure of security by never allowing the encryption key to be seen in clear text.

You must input the encryption key twice to confirm that it was entered correctly. If the keys don’t match, the initialization fails.

For more information, see “Strong encryption” [SQL Anywhere Studio Security Guide, page 15].

Extract fully qualified publications (–f) In most cases, you do not need to

extract fully qualified publication definitions for the remote database, since it typically replicates all rows back to the consolidated database anyway.

However, you may want fully qualified publications for multi-tier setups or for setups where the remote database has rows that are not in the consolidated database.

Internal unload, internal load (–ii) Using this option forces the reload script to use the internal UNLOAD and LOAD TABLE statements rather

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