How applications and database servers work together

Components of a database system

Any information system is comprised of the following components:

The database data is stored in the database. In the illustrations in this document, the database is a adaptive Server Anywhere database is a file, usually with. db as the extension. Adaptive Server Anywhere includes sample databases that you can use:

The sample database is a asademo.db file located in the adaptive Server Anywhere installation directory.

Database server

The database server manages the database. No other application handles database files directly; they all communicate with the database server. For instructions on starting the database server, see "Connecting your application to its database server": Adaptive server Anywhere provides two database server versions: Personal Data library servers and network database servers. The network database server also supports client/server communications on the network, in addition to the functionality of a personal server, and the personal database server can only accept connections from applications running on the same computer.