• Utility database connections
• CREATE DATABASE statement
• SQL Anywhere database connections

Create a database file in the c:\temp directory with the file name temp.db.

CREATE DATABASE 'c:\\temp\\temp.db';

The directory path is relative to the database server. You set the permissions required to execute this statement using the -gu dbeng12/dbsrv12 server option. The default setting requires DBA authority.

The backslash is an escape character in SQL, and sometimes must be doubled. The \x and \n sequences can be used to specifying hexadecimal and newline characters. Letters other than n and x do not have any special meaning if they are preceded by a backslash. Here are some examples where this is important.

CREATE DATABASE 'c:\\temp\\\x41\x42\x43xyz.db';

The initial \\ sequence represents a backslash. The \x sequences represent the characters A, B, and C, respectively. The file name here is ABCxyz.db.

CREATE DATABASE 'c:\temp\\nest.db';

To avoid having the \n sequence interpreted as a newline character, the backslash is doubled. See Escape sequences.