Structure
A single stand alone installation of ASE typically comprises one "dataserver" and one corresponding "backup server". In multi server installation many dataservers can share one single backup server though. A dataserver consists of system databases and user's databases. Minimum system databases that are mandatory for normal working of dataserver are 'master', 'tempdb', 'model' and 'sybsystemprocs'. 'master' database holds critical system related information that includes, logins, passwords, and dataserver configuration parameters. 'tempdb' is used for storage of data that are required for intermediate processing of queries, and temporary data. 'model' is used a template for creating new databases. 'sybsystemprocs' consists of system supplied stored procedures that queries system tables and manipulates data in them.
ASE is a single process multithreaded dataserver application, it means when server is up and running there is one single OS process.
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