{ StartLine | START }=local-database-server-command

Embedded databases.

dbeng12 on all platforms except for Windows Mobile.

dbsrv12 on Windows Mobile.

The StartLine connection parameter is only used to start a database server if a connection cannot be made to the specified database server.

For example, suppose you start a database server running a database as follows:

dbeng12 c:\mydb.db

Connect another database (without specifying a database server name using the Server connection parameter):

dbisql -c "START=dbsrv12 -x none -c 8M;DBN=seconddb;DBF=c:\myseconddb.db;UID=DBA;PWD=sql"

In this case, the dbsrv12 database server is not started. Instead, the dbeng12 database server that was used to start mydb.db is used to start and connect to myseconddb.db.

However, if Server=server-name had been specified, and a database server named server-name was not running, then the dbsrv12 database server would have started.

START=dbeng12 -c 8M;Server=mydb;DBN=mydb;DBF=c:\sample.db

START=dbeng12 -c 8M -n mydb "c:\sample.db"

• Using the StartLine [START] connection parameter
• Connection parameters and connection strings
• CommLinks (LINKS) connection parameter
• Embedded database connections

The following data source fragment starts a personal database server with a cache of 8 MB.

"StartLine=dbeng12 -c 8M;DBF=%SQLANYSAMP12%\demo.db"