With both Sybase Central and Interactive SQL, you can start a database without connecting to it.

 ♦  To start a database on a database server without connecting (Sybase Central)

 ♦  To start a database on a server without connecting (SQL)

See START DATABASE statement.

Start the database file c:\temp\temp.db on the database server named sample.

START DATABASE 'c:\\temp\\temp.db'
AS tempdb ON 'sample'
AUTOSTOP OFF;

You must be connected to a database to start another database.

The AUTOSTOP OFF connection parameter prevents the database from being stopped automatically when all connections have been disconnected. It is used here to illustrate a point later on in the discussion.

For more details about starting a database, see Using SQL Anywhere database servers.