Setting properties in a client/server environment

In a client/server environment, you must set the system properties for the server's system. That means that when you are using the derby.properties file, the file exists in the server's derby.system.home directory. Client applications can set database-wide properties because they are set via SQL statements.

Table 1. Summary of ways to set properties
Type of property	How you set it
System-wide	In derby.properties As a command-line option when starting the JVM that holds the server or, if the server is started from within a program, programmatically by the program that hosts the server
Database-wide	Using system procedures and functions in an SQL statement