<s>
SAP	B-Application
SQL	I-Application
Anywhere	I-Application
is	O
a	O
proprietary	O
relational	B-Application
database	I-Application
management	I-Application
system	I-Application
(	O
RDBMS	B-Application
)	O
product	O
from	O
SAP	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
SQL	B-Application
Anywhere	I-Application
was	O
known	O
as	O
Sybase	B-Application
SQL	I-Application
Anywhere	I-Application
prior	O
to	O
the	O
acquisition	O
of	O
Sybase	B-Application
by	O
SAP	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
SQL	B-Application
Anywhere	I-Application
can	O
be	O
run	O
on	O
Windows	B-Application
,	O
Windows	B-Operating_System
CE	I-Operating_System
,	O
Mac	B-Operating_System
OS	I-Operating_System
X	I-Operating_System
,	O
and	O
various	O
UNIX	B-Application
platforms	O
,	O
including	O
Linux	B-Application
,	O
AIX	B-Application
,	O
HP-UX	B-Application
and	O
Solaris	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Database	O
files	O
are	O
independent	O
of	O
the	O
operating	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
,	O
allowing	O
them	O
to	O
be	O
copied	O
between	O
supported	O
platforms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
product	O
provides	O
several	O
standard	O
interfaces	O
(	O
ODBC	B-Application
,	O
JDBC	B-Language
,	O
and	O
ADO.NET	B-Device
)	O
and	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
special	O
interfaces	O
such	O
as	O
PHP	B-Application
and	O
Perl	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
engine	O
supports	O
stored	B-General_Concept
procedures	I-General_Concept
,	O
user	O
functions	O
(	O
using	O
Watcom	B-Application
SQL	I-Application
,	O
T-SQL	B-Language
,	O
Java	B-Device
,	O
or	O
C/C	O
++	O
)	O
,	O
triggers	B-Language
,	O
referential	B-General_Concept
integrity	I-General_Concept
,	O
row-level	O
locking	O
,	O
replication	B-Architecture
,	O
high	B-Architecture
availability	I-Architecture
,	O
proxy	B-Protocol
tables	I-Protocol
,	O
and	O
events	O
(	O
scheduled	O
and	O
system	O
events	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SQL	B-Application
Anywhere	I-Application
is	O
used	O
in	O
several	O
contexts	O
,	O
including	O
as	O
an	O
embedded	B-Application
database	I-Application
,	O
particularly	O
as	O
an	O
application	O
data	O
store	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
it	O
is	O
used	O
in	O
Intuit	B-Application
QuickBooks	I-Application
,	O
in	O
network	O
management	O
products	O
,	O
and	O
in	O
backup	O
products	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
as	O
a	O
database	B-Application
server	I-Application
for	O
work	O
groups	O
or	O
for	O
small	O
or	O
medium-sized	O
businesses	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
includes	O
scalable	O
data	B-General_Concept
synchronization	I-General_Concept
technology	O
that	O
provides	O
change-based	O
replication	B-Architecture
between	O
separate	O
databases	O
,	O
including	O
large	O
server-based	O
RDBMS	B-Application
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SQL	B-Application
Anywhere	I-Application
Server	O
is	O
a	O
high	O
performing	O
and	O
embeddable	O
relational	O
database-management	O
system	O
(	O
RDBMS	B-Application
)	O
that	O
scales	O
from	O
thousands	O
of	O
users	O
in	O
server	O
environments	O
down	O
to	O
desktop	O
and	O
mobile	O
applications	O
used	O
in	O
widely	O
deployed	O
,	O
zero-administration	O
environments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SQL	O
Remote	O
:	O
SQL	O
Remote	O
technology	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
a	O
store	O
and	O
forward	O
architecture	O
that	O
allows	O
occasionally	O
connected	O
users	O
to	O
synchronize	O
data	O
between	O
SQL	B-Application
Anywhere	I-Application
databases	O
using	O
a	O
file	O
or	O
message	O
transfer	O
mechanism	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Initially	O
created	O
by	O
Watcom	O
as	O
Watcom	B-Application
SQL	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
PowerSoft	O
and	O
Sybase	B-Application
merged	O
in	O
1995	O
:	O
Watcom	B-Application
SQL	I-Application
was	O
renamed	O
SQL	B-Application
Anywhere	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Renamed	O
Adaptive	B-Application
Server	I-Application
Anywhere	I-Application
(	O
ASA	B-Application
)	O
.	O
</s>
