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Environment variables contain information on a user's software environment.

Environment Variables Used by SAP MaxDB

Name

Example

Description

Restrictions

LD_ASSUME_KERNEL

2.2.5

Deactivate the new Red Hat threading library

Red Hat, Fedora

Linux kernels > 2.4

SAP MaxDB versions < 7.6

LD_LIBRARY_PATH

/opt/sdb/programs/lib

Used by the SAP MaxDB ODBC driver and SQLDBC interface

On Unix and Linux only

PATH

/opt/sdb/bin

See Glossary, Directory

Path to the executable SAP MaxDB files

-

SERVERDB

DEMODB

Database name

-

SQLOPT

-

Options for connecting to the database

SAP MaxDB versions < 7.5