Vendor Announcement: SQL Anywhere Client Installer Released

[Former Member]

See Eric's blog post at:

http://iablog.sybase.com/efarrar/2010/11/sql-anywhere-client-installer-released/

[VolkerBarth]

For Windows platforms: What are the pros/cons of these installers compared to the Deployment Wizard (which offers to install only client software, too)?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

One of the main advantages of the client install for Windows over custom-built deployment wizard installs is that the client install creates a Start Menu folder with icons for DBISQL and Sybase Central. Since it has options during the install, you can choose whether or not to install the administration tools on a machine by machine basis. We will also post EBFs for the client install from time to time.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Bill's answer is more on the pro side of things. One "con" is that the client installer for Windows will give you all interfaces: ADO.NET, ODBC, OLE DB, etc. If you use the Deployment Wizard, you can choose the specific interfaces to deply, as opposed to getting them all.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Another con is that the client install for Windows includes the JRE used by the admin tools. You can build a much smaller package using the deployment wizard if you don't include the admin tools.

[VolkerBarth · Accepted solution]

@Bill: That's an important disadvantage for simple client installs, say in a corporate install where Deployment Wizard setups often are just 3-4 MB small. - IMHO, the main advantage (besides the much broader platform support) is the inclusion of the menus. That's something I have missed in the Deployment Wizard:)

[VolkerBarth · Accepted solution]

@Bill: Two further questions: 1. Is the created install a "SQL Anywhere standard installation" (i.e. with the original SA product code)? 2. Can it be EBF'ed afterwards? (If so, that were additional differences - and possibly advantages - compared to the Deployment Wizard.)

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

@Volker: 1. Yes, the install is just a subset of the SA standard installation, so has the benefit of being "guaranteed" to work. By guaranteed, I mean that it has the same bugs as the full SA installer :). 2. It can be EBF's afterwards, but not by the full SA installer. It has a different product code, so requires a separate installer. We haven't posted one yet, but we're working towards having EBFs for the client install as well. They will be smaller because they don't include the JRE.

[VolkerBarth]

FWIW, José has just announced that the Database Client Install has been released for versions 16.0 and 12.0.1:

• SAP SQL Anywhere Database Client Download