Is it possible to run multiple instances of Sybase Central?

[Former Member]

The point would be to be able to look at "things" side-by-side.

There's probably a setting for that but I can't find it.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

In the 'Options' dialog, turn off the fast launcher and you can start more than one Sybase Central.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

How counter-intuitive!

[Breck_Carter · Accepted solution]

You want counter-intuitive, see http://sqlanywhere.blogspot.ca/2013/05/sql-anywhere-dead-chickens.html 🙂

[Breck_Carter · Accepted solution]

Paul: Five up-votes in 22 hours might be telling you something about, say, a feature needed 🙂

[graeme_perrow · Accepted solution]

I can't speak for anyone else, but I upvoted solely because it's clear and simple and exactly answered the question asked.

[VolkerBarth · Accepted solution]

Yes, that's why Breck implicitly refers to the other 5 up-votes:)

At least my impression of that answer was more of an "Ah, that's how you have to do it, the fast launcher is making troubles..." - besides its clear and simple wording.

[justin_willey]

You shouldn't have any problem running different major versions against the same database - I do that quite often. Just make sure that you explicitly specify the paths of any utilities you want to run - don't rely on the PATH to find them.

What problems are you seeing?

Running different minor versions (ie different builds of the same version) is rather more tricky - I'm not sure how easy that is - unless you do a manual install of the necessary files.

[Former Member]

Was trying to run the same version of Sybase Central twice.

[justin_willey]

What errors / problems are you getting?

[Breck_Carter]

Justin: Have you had a coffee yet? ( grinning, running and ducking 🙂