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Running Multiple Local Databases

You may want to have multiple local databases open at the same time—for example, to run Siebel Tools and the Siebel client application simultaneously. If you want to operate in this manner, you must change the local database configuration of one of the applications.

SQL Anywhere also requires that all database files opened simultaneously have unique filenames. Because all Siebel client applications use the same default name for their local database files, you must rename the database file of one application and move it to the database directory of the other.

To rename and move the local database for your Siebel Tools installation

  1. Exit Siebel Tools if it is running.
  2. Edit the .cfg file to change the name of your local database file:
    1. Open the tools.cfg file (in the \bin subdirectory of your Siebel Tools installation) with a text editor.
    2. Replace the file parameter for ConnectString, under the [Local] section, with the new name and location of the Siebel Tools local database file.

      3. For example, change:

    ConnectString = d:\siebdev\local\sse_data.dbf

    to:

    ConnectString = c:\siebel\local\sse_tools.dbf

    Where:

    c:\siebel = the root directory of the other Siebel application.

    local = the directory of the data source.

  3. Rename the Siebel Tools local database file and move it to the directory specified in Step 2.

    4. In this example, the c:\siebdev\database\sse_data.dbf file would be renamed sse_tools.dbf and moved to the c:\siebel\database directory.

  4. Modify the ODBC data source that points to the Siebel Tools local database as follows:
    1. From a DOS prompt, navigate to the \bin subdirectory of your Siebel Tools installation.
    2. Type ODBCAD32 to start the ODBC administrator.
    3. Select the data source used by Siebel Tools.

      4. This defaults to SSD Local Db c:\siebdev

      Where:

      c:\siebdev = the directory into which Siebel Tools was installed.

    4. Click the Configure button.
    5. Change the value in the Database File window, under the Database Startup section, to the new location and name of the Siebel Tools local database. In this example, change

    c:\siebdev\local\sse_data.dbf

    to:

    c:\siebel\local\sse_tools.dbf

    1. Close the ODBC32 applet.

 Siebel Tools Reference, Version 7.5, Rev. A 
 Published: 18 April 2003