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SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere 16.0 » SQL Anywhere Server - Database Administration » Database configuration

 

Database options

The following options allow you to configure the behavior of a SQL Anywhere database.

Option Values Default Required Privilege
allow_nulls_by_default option On, Off

On

Off for Sybase Open Client and jConnect connections

SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
allow_read_client_file option On, Off Off SET ANY SECURITY OPTION
allow_snapshot_isolation option On, Off Off SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
allow_write_client_file option On, Off Off SET ANY SECURITY OPTION
ansi_blanks option On, Off Off SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
ansi_close_cursors_on_rollback option On, Off Off SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
ansi_permissions option On, Off On SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
ansi_substring option On, Off On SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
ansi_update_constraints option Off, Cursors, Strict Cursors SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
ansinull option On, Off On SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
auditing option On, Off Off SET ANY SECURITY OPTION
auditing_options option (reserved for system use) Reserved Reserved SET ANY SECURITY OPTION
auto_commit_on_create_local_temp_index option On, Off Off SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
background_priority option [deprecated] On, Off Off SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
blocking option On, Off On SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
blocking_others_timeout option Integer, in milliseconds 0 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
blocking_timeout option Integer, in milliseconds 0 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
chained option On, Off

On

Off for Sybase Open Client and jConnect connections

SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
checkpoint_time option Number of minutes 60 SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
cis_option option 0, 7 0 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
cis_rowset_size option Integer 50 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
close_on_endtrans option On, Off

On

Off for jConnect connections

SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
collect_statistics_on_dml_updates option On, Off On SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
conn_auditing option On, Off On SET ANY SECURITY OPTION
connection_authentication option String Empty string SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
continue_after_raiserror option On, Off On SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
conversion_error option On, Off On SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
cooperative_commit_timeout option Integer, in milliseconds 250 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
cooperative_commits option On, Off On SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
database_authentication option String Empty string SET ANY SECURITY OPTION
date_format option String YYYY-MM-DD SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
date_order option MDY, YMD, DMY YMD SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
db_publisher option User ID -1 SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
debug_messages option On, Off Off SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
dedicated_task option On, Off Off SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
default_dbspace option String Empty string (use the system dbspace) SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
default_timestamp_increment option Integer, representing microseconds, from 1 to 1000000 1 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
delayed_commit_timeout option Integer, in milliseconds 500 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
delayed_commits option On, Off Off SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
disk_sandbox option On, Off Off SET ANY SECURITY OPTION
divide_by_zero_error option On, Off On SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
escape_character option Reserved Reserved SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
exclude_operators option Reserved Reserved SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
extended_join_syntax option On, Off On SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
extern_login_credentials option Login_user, Effective_user Login_user SET ANY SECURITY OPTION
fire_triggers option On, Off On SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
first_day_of_week option 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 7 (Sunday is the first day of the week) SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
for_xml_null_treatment option Empty, Omit Omit SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
force_view_creation option Reserved Reserved SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
global_database_id option Integer 2147483647 SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
http_connection_pool_basesize option Integer (from 0 to 1000) 10 SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
http_connection_pool_timeout option Integer, in seconds from 1 to 86400 60 SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
http_session_timeout option Integer 30 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
integrated_server_name option String NULL SET ANY SECURITY OPTION
isolation_level option 0, 1, 2, 3, Snapshot, Statement-snapshot, Readonly-statement-snapshot 0 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
java_class_path option String Empty string SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
java_location option String Empty string SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
java_main_userid option (deprecated String Empty string SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
java_vm_options option String Empty string SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
log_deadlocks option On, Off Off SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
login_mode option Standard, Integrated, Kerberos, LDAPUA, CloudAdmin, Mixed (deprecated) Standard SET ANY SECURITY OPTION
login_procedure option String sp_login_environment SET ANY SECURITY OPTION
materialized_view_optimization option Disabled, Fresh, Stale, N { Minute[s] | Hour[s] | Day[s] | Week[s] | Month[s] } Stale SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
max_client_statements_cached option Integer 10 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
max_cursor_count option Integer 50 SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
max_plans_cached option Integer 20 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
max_priority option Critical, High, Above Normal, Normal, Below normal, Low, Background Normal SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
max_query_tasks option Integer 0 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
max_recursive_iterations option Integer 100 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
max_statement_count option Integer >=0 50 SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
max_temp_space option Integer [k|m|g|p] 0 SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
min_password_length option Integer >=0 0 characters SET ANY SECURITY OPTION
min_role_admins option Integer, between 1 and 10 inclusive 1 SET ANY SECURITY OPTION
nearest_century option Integer, between 0 and 100 inclusive 50 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
non_keywords option String Empty string SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
odbc_describe_binary_as_varbinary On, Off Off SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
odbc_distinguish_char_and_varchar option On, Off Off SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
oem_string option String (up to 128 bytes) Empty string SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
on_charset_conversion_failure option Ignore, Warning, Error Ignore SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
on_tsql_error option Stop, Conditional, Continue

Conditional

Continue for jConnect connections

SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
optimization_goal option First-row or All-rows All-rows SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
optimization_level option 0-15 9 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
optimization_workload option Mixed, OLAP Mixed SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
pinned_cursor_percent_of_cache option Integer, between 0-100 10 SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
post_login_procedure option String Empty string SET ANY SECURITY OPTION
precision option Integer, between 1 and 127 inclusive 30 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
prefetch option Off, Conditional, Always Conditional SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
preserve_source_format option On, Off On SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
prevent_article_pkey_update option On, Off On SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
priority option Critical, High, Above Normal, Normal, Below normal, Low, Background Normal SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
progress_messages option Off, Formatted, Raw Off SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
query_mem_timeout option -1, 0, positive integer -1 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
quoted_identifier option On, Off On SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
read_past_deleted option On, Off On SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
recovery_time option Integer, in minutes 2 SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
remote_idle_timeout option Integer, in seconds 15 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
request_timeout option Integer, 0 through 86400, in seconds 0 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
reserved_keywords option String Empty string SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
return_date_time_as_string option On, Off Off SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
rollback_on_deadlock On, Off On SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
row_counts option On, Off Off SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
scale option Integer, between 0 and 127, inclusive, and less than the value specified for the precision database option 6 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION

secure_feature_key option (deprecated)

String NULL SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
sort_collation option Internal, collation_name, or collation_id Internal SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
sql_flagger_error_level option Off, SQL:1992/Entry, SQL:1992/Intermediate, SQL:1992/Full, SQL:1999/Core, SQL:1999/Package, SQL:2003/Core, SQL:2003/Package, UltraLite Off SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
sql_flagger_warning_level option Off, SQL:1992/Entry, SQL:1992/Intermediate, SQL:1992/Full, SQL:1999/Core, SQL:1999/Package, SQL:2003/Core, SQL:2003/Package, UltraLite Off SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
string_rtruncation option On, Off On SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
st_geometry_asbinary_format option The list of values supported for this option is identical to the list of parameters documented for the ST_AsBinary method for type ST_Geometry. See ST_AsBinary method for type ST_Geometry. WKB SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
st_geometry_astext_format option The list of values supported for this option is identical to the list of parameters documented for the ST_AsText method for type ST_Geometry. See ST_AsText method for type ST_Geometry. WKT SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
st_geometry_asxml_format option The list of values supported for this option is identical to the list of parameters documented for the ST_AsXML method for type ST_Geometry. See ST_AsXML method for type ST_Geometry. XML SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
st_geometry_describe_type option CHAR, NCHAR, BINARY CHAR SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
st_geometry_interpolation option A set of key=value pairs, formatted as: key1=value1;key2=value2;. Valid keys include: relative-tolerance-percent=DOUBLE absolute-tolerance=DOUBLE See the description of the defaulting behavior found in st_geometry_interpolation option. SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
st_geometry_on_invalid option Ignore, Error Error SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
subsume_row_locks option On, Off On SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
suppress_tds_debugging option On, Off Off SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
synchronize_mirror_on_commit option On, Off Off SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
tds_empty_string_is_null option On, Off Off SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
temp_space_limit_check option On, Off On SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
time_format option String HH:NN:SS.SSS SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
time_zone_adjustment option Integer, or negative integer enclosed in quotation marks, or string, representing time in hours and minutes, preceded by + or -, enclosed in quotation marks Set by either the client's or the database server's time zone, depending on the client's connection type SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
timestamp_format option String YYYY-MM-DD HH:NN:SS.SSS SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
timestamp_with_time_zone_format option String YYYY-MM-DD HH:NN:SS.SSS+HH:NN SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
truncate_timestamp_values option On, Off Off SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
trusted_certificates_file option NULL, 'filepath-to-certificate NULL SET ANY SECURITY OPTION
tsql_outer_joins option On, Off Off SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
tsql_variables option On, Off

Off

On for Sybase Open Client and jConnect connections

SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
updatable_statement_isolation option 0, 1, 2, 3 0 SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
update_statistics option On, Off On SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
user_estimates option Enabled, Disabled, Override-Magic Override-Magic SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
uuid_has_hyphens option On, Off Off SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
verify_password_function option String Empty string SET ANY SECURITY OPTION
wait_for_commit option On, Off Off SET ANY PUBLIC OPTION
webservice_namespace_host option NULL, hostname-string NULL SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
webservice_sessionid_name option NULL, sessionid-string NULL SET ANY SYSTEM OPTION
 See also

Different types of database options
Scope and duration of database options
How to view database options
Monitoring option settings
Changing database options (Sybase Central)
Database option settings for TDS and Command Sequence communication protocols
Alphabetical list of database options