New Features and Upgrading Guide
CHAPTER 3. New Features in Adaptive Server Anywhere 6.0
This section documents new features in SQL Remote Version 6.
Message compression Messages can be compressed for greater efficiency.
For more information, see SQL Remote options.
Unload and reload for SQL Remote The dbunload and dblog utilities for Adaptive Server Anywhere have additional features that allow them to be used for unloading and reloading a consolidated database in a SQL Remote installation.
For more information, see Unloading and reloading a consolidated database.
Added security for database extractions When extracting a database, files created on disk contain potentially sensitive database information.
For sites where this could be a problem, the -an and -ac options for the Unload and Extraction utilities provide more security. With these options, no data is written to disk. The price for the additional security is a lower performance.
For more information, see The extraction command-line utility.
Locale information The Message Agent for Adaptive Server Enterprise can now use supplied language and locale information.
For more information, see The Message Agent.
Encoded messages The encoding used in SQL Remote Version 5 has been revised to provide greater compatibility with e-mail systems. Encoding ensures that messages travel through a message system uncorrupted.
In addition, a facility for user-defined encoding has been added, so that you can add your own features to the message format.
For a description of message encoding, see Message encoding and compression.
Replication of LONG data types (blobs) to Adaptive Server Enterprise LONG BINARY and LONG VARCHAR data types in Adaptive Server Anywhere, and IMAGE and TEXT types in Adaptive Server Enterprise, are sometimes called binary large objects, or blobs. You can now replicate some of these in SQL Remote installations using Adaptive Server Enterprise. Blob replication in all Adaptive Server Anywhere installations is an existing feature in the software.
For more information, see Replication of blobs.
The SQL Remote Message Agent for Adaptive Server Anywhere requires a Version 6 database server. It will not run against a SQL Anywhere Version 5 database server.
For information on upgrading SQL Remote sites, see Upgrading SQL Remote installations.