Database tools programming

The database server software includes administration tools and a set of utilities for managing databases. These database management utilities perform tasks such as backing up databases, creating databases, translating transaction logs to SQL, and so on.

An application program uses structures to exchange information with the DBTools API library. All of these structures are defined in dbtools.h, except the a_remote_sql structure, which is defined in dbrmt.h.

All database tools library entry points return exit codes. The database server and utilities (dbsrv17, dbbackup, dbspawn, and so on) also use these exit codes.