Database Configuration

After installing a Series 2000 license, you can enter the follow database parameters.

Databases Driver

This is the class name of the database driver.

Database URL

This is the url to connect to the database using the give driver above.

Database Username

This is the username to connect to the database.

Database Password

This is the password used.

Database Connections

The maximum number of connections used for this database.

Character Set

This is the character set that your database uses. Switching between character set may cause existing data to be unreadable.

Unicode

This is the prefered character set if your database supports unicode or UTF-8. Switching to Unicode may modify database varchar type columns to nvarchar if applicable.

Latin 1 (ISO8859-1)

For European languages using one byte encoding. All other languages including multibyte must use Unicode.

UTF-8

If you upgrade from 2.1 or earlier, you must use UTF-8. Unicode was encoded to UTF-8 and stored in a latin1 database. This is for backward compatable only. Selecting other encoding may cause existing data to be unreadable. Different JDBC driver and database combinations may give you different encoding result which may cause unreadable data.

See JDBC Drivers and URLs for supported databases.

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