Adaptive Server Devices And System Databases; The Master Device - Sybase Adaptive Server Configuration Manual

Adaptive Server devices and system databases

The master device

Configuration Guide
When using the source files: SYBASE.csh or SYBASE.sh, the following
paths are prepended to the LIBPATH environment variable:
$SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/lib:$SYBASE/$SYBASE_OCS/
lib: $SYBASE/SYBASE_FTS/lib, etc.
Devices are files or portions of a disk that are used to store databases and
database objects. You can initialize devices using raw disk partitions or
operating system files.
Adaptive Server requires the following devices:
• – to store system databases.
master
• – to store information about distributed transaction.
sybsystemdb
• – to store system procedures.
sysprocsdev
The master, sybsystemdb, and sysprocsdev devices are created when you
create a new Adaptive Server.
The master device contains the following databases:
• – controls the operation of Adaptive Server as a whole and stores
master
information about all users, user databases, devices, objects, and system
table entries. The
device and cannot be expanded onto any other device.
• – provides a template for new user databases. The
model
contains required system tables, which are copied into a new user database
with the
create database
• – the work area for temporary databases in Adaptive Server.
tempdb
Adaptive Server supports multiple
database" in the T-SQL User's Guide. Each time Adaptive Server is
started, the
tempdb
database.
database is contained entirely on the master
master
command.
tempdb
database is cleared and rebuilt from the
CHAPTER 1 Introduction
model
s. See "create temporary
model
database
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