Empress System Variables

Empress provides system variables to give each user control over the Empress environment. The system variables are used to set such things as the number of spaces between columns in the output from a SELECT statement, the system editor, the attribute separator in a dump file, and so on. These variables all have system defaults. They may be reset using Empress SQL, application programs or in the operating system.

Empress System Variables are grouped under the following main categories:

1. Path Related Variables
2. General Topics Related Variables
3. Transactions Related Variables
4. Locking Related Variables
5. Query Related Variables
6. Select Output Formatting Related Variables
7. On-Line Backup Related Variables
8. Shared Memory Related Variables
9. Dirty Read and Data Streaming Related Variables
10. Database Utility Related Variables
11. Server/Internet Related Variables
12. Operating System Related Variables
13. Report Writer Related Variables
14. Empress Internal Variables
15. Network Server Related Variables
16. Replication Related Variables