Practical SQL Handbook, The: Using SQL Variants, Fourth Edition

Getting Started

If you install the Adaptive Server Anywhere software on your personal computer, you won't need to ask for permission or create a database: bookbiz is already installed. However, you may prefer to use the RDBMS most favored at the office so that you can become familiar with it. In this case, you'll need to negotiate with the responsible parties.

Since a significant amount of storage space may have to be set aside for each new database (even if the database will never contain much data), permission to create databases is often jealously guarded in multiuser environments. If this is the case in your situation, you can go on to the sections that discuss creating database objects. However, you will have to ask your system administrator ...