SQL Anywhere® Server - Database Administration  > Replicating Data with Replication Server  > Tutorial: Replicate data using Replication Server

Lesson 1: Create the SQL Anywhere databases

This section describes how to create and set up the SQL Anywhere databases for replication.

You can create a database using Sybase Central or the dbinit utility. For this tutorial, you use the dbinit utility.

Create the primary site database

• Enter the following command from the tutorial directory you created (for example, c:\tutorial\primedb).

  dbinit primedb

  This creates a database file primedb.db in the current directory.

Create the replicate site database

• Enter the following command from the tutorial directory you created (for example c:\tutorial\repdb).

  dbinit repdb

  This creates a database file repdb.db in the current directory.

What's next?

Next, you have to start database servers to run the databases.

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