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What ... ? (general) What is Foxhound? What's new in Foxhound Beta 1.3736? What's new in Foxhound Beta 1.3707? What's new in Foxhound Beta 1.3677? What's new in Foxhound Beta 1.3655? What is SQL Anywhere? What is the history of Foxhound? What's in the future for Foxhound? What is the upgrade policy for installing new builds of Foxhound? What is the Foxhound End-User License Agreement (EULA)? What are the differences among the different editions of Foxhound: Beta, Evaluation, Basic and Extended? What happens when a copy of Foxhound expires? What HTTP port should I use for Foxhound?
How do I ... ? (general) How do I install Foxhound? How do I install version 11 of SQL Anywhere on the same machine used to run an earlier version of SQL Anywhere? How do I start Foxhound? How do I stop Foxhound? How do I stop and restart Foxhound? How do I install a new version of Foxhound? How do I reinstall Foxhound? How do I backup my Foxhound database? How do I backup my Foxhound database on a regular basis? How do I restore the old build of Foxhound after installing a new build? How do I reinstall an earlier build of Foxhound? How do I restore the Foxhound database from a backup? How do I remove Foxhound from my system? How do I figure out what went wrong during an installation? How do I see Foxhound diagnostics, errors and exceptions? How do I start Foxhound in "safe mode"? How do I keep the Foxhound database file from growing so large? How do I shrink the size of the Foxhound database? How do I keep the Foxhound log file from growing so large? How do I tell Foxhound to use an HTTP port other than 80? How do I change the Alerts criteria? (threshold settings, etcetera) How do I tell different databases apart in Alert emails? How do I get something to show up in the Last Statement column? How do I get something to show up in the Total Waits, Waiting Time columns?
Why ... ? (general) Why are my Alert emails garbled? Why are the values empty in the Last Statement column? Why are the values empty in the Total Waits, Waiting Time columns? Why are the values so large in the Interval and Sample Time columns? Why are there so many "Connection timeout" messages in Foxhound - Options - Display Diagnostics? Why did Foxhound start automatically after I stopped it? Why is it called "unsetup" instead of "uninstall"? Why is the "Choose a DSN:" drop down list empty? Why won't the target database auto-start when Foxhound tries to connect to it? Why won't the sample connection strings on the String tab work on Vista? Why is Foxhound unresponsive when it starts? Why does the Foxhound post-upgrade process take so long? Why doesn't the Foxhound backup process create the generation2 subfolder? Why does the CPU Time for a blocked connection go up over time?
Messages 404 Not Found 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable A subdirectory or file backup already exists. ALERT ... Alert #11 - HA failover - ... on ... ALL CLEAR ... Another version of this product is already installed. CANCELLED ... Cannot access "foxhound1.db": another process may be using the file Cannot open transaction log file -- Can't use log file "foxhound.log" Can't open Message window log file: foxhound1_debug.txt Can't start HTTP listener on address 127.0.0.1:80 Choose a connection string. Choose an ODBC DSN. Connection timeout for target ... after ... (timeout threshold is ...; see Foxhound Options) Could not load dynamic library ' ... \rroad1.dll' Could not bind to address ... CREATE PROCEDURE rroad_..._properties failed ... Item 'rroad_..._properties' already exists Data cannot be upgraded from ... to ... Data source name not found and no default driver specified Database server not found Database server shutdown due to startup error dbspawn/dbeng11 set ERRORLEVEL = 0 dbspawn/dbeng11 set ERRORLEVEL = 1 dbspawn/dbeng11 set ERRORLEVEL = 255 DBSPAWN ERROR: -81 EMAIL FAILURE - SMTP send email failed with return code ... when sending "..." file is unavailable Foxhound Extended edition is required for ... Foxhound needs JavaScript to be enabled. Foxhound was not available yet, probably because the Foxhound engine had not finished starting up. Foxhound stopped Invalid database engine command line Invalid database server command line Invalid user ID or password No detailed information about ... connections was recorded for... No information about ... connections has been gathered yet. No information about ... connections is available for the sample lost at ... Older samples purged at ... Permission denied: Cannot CREATE PROCEDURE rroad_... Pick a valid ODBC DSN, and specify the user id and password on the Foxhound DSN tab or inside the DSN itself Procedure rroad_... has been upgraded from build number ... to ... on ... Procedure rroad_... not used; build number ... is more recent than Foxhound build number ... Request Time-Out (408) Sampling stopped SMTP send email failed with return code ... when sending "..." Specified database file already in use Specified database not found SQL Anywhere database version ... not supported SQL Anywhere database server ... not supported SQL Anywhere version ... not supported. SQL Anywhere version ... or later is required to run this application. Stop Foxhound Engine requested at ... Syntax error: syntax error near ... The $backup_foxhound1.bat file looked for a path specification in the FOXHOUND1 environment variable and it was empty. The connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost The data upgrade process has begun: to build ... from ... The data upgrade process has failed: to build ... from ...; diagnostics = "..." The data upgrade process has succeeded: to build ... from ... The Foxhound database must run on its own SQL Anywhere engine. The Foxhound engine has been shut down. The initial activation was not successful: The registration key did not work. The initial activation was not successful: you cannot activate a BETA copy of Foxhound as FULL. The page cannot be displayed The system cannot find the file specified. The table ... has more than one index on columns ( ... ) The table ... has no primary key or unique constraint, but does have a unique index. The table ... has no primary key, unique constraint or unique index. The table or view ... was not found, probably because it has been recently dropped. This view has no column definitions in SYSCOLUMN; it may contain a syntax error. There are no user tables to display. This monitor session has been stopped and the samples have been deleted. To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this file from showing active content that could access your computer. Too many sampling sessions in progress. Stop one and try again. Unexpected operation: "..." User "..." dropped event connection ... ("...")