Chapter 4. Tutorials for Adaptive Server Anywhere Users

The dbxtract utility enables you to carry out all the steps needed to create a remote database complete with subscriptions and required user IDs.

Extract the remote database information

Leave the hq database running, and change to the tutorial directory.

Type the following command at the system command line (all on one line) to extract a database for the user field_user from the consolidated database:

dbxtract -v -c "dbn=hq;uid=dba;pwd=sql" c:ntutorial field_user

The -voption produces more verbose output. This is useful during development.

This command assumes the hq database is currently running on the default server. If the database is not running, you should enter a database file parameter in the connection string:

dbf=hq.db

instead of the dbn database name parameter.

For details of the dbxtract utility and its options, see “The extraction utility” on page 303 .

The dbxtract command creates a SQL command file named reload.sql in the current directory and a data file in the c:\tutorial directory. It also starts the subscriptions to the remote user.

The next step is to load these files into the remote database.

Load the remote database information

To load the database information

1.From the tutorial directory, connect to the remote database field.db from Interactive SQL with a user ID of DBA and a password of SQL.

2.Run the reload.sql command file:

READ C:ntutorialnreload.sql

The reload.sql command file carries out the following tasks:

Creates a message type at the remote database.

Grants PUBLISH and REMOTE permissions to the remote and consolidated database, respectively.

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