Sybase 12.4.2 User Manual

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Contents

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About This Book ........................................................................................................................ xvii

CHAPTER 1

Overview of Adaptive Server IQ System Administration ............ 1

Introduction to Adaptive Server IQ ................................................... 1
System administration tasks............................................................. 2
Security overview ............................................................................. 3

Types of users ........................................................................... 4
Granting permissions ................................................................ 4

Tools for system administration........................................................ 4
The database server ........................................................................ 5
Catalogs and IQ ............................................................................... 5

The IQ Store .............................................................................. 6
The Temporary Store ................................................................ 6
The Catalog Store ..................................................................... 6

Concurrent operations...................................................................... 7
Stored procedures............................................................................ 7

Adaptive Server IQ stored procedures ...................................... 8
Adaptive Server Enterprise system and catalog procedures .... 9
Catalog stored procedures ...................................................... 11

System tables and views................................................................ 12
Commands and Functions ............................................................. 16

Types of SQL statements ........................................................ 16
Functions ................................................................................. 16

Message logging ............................................................................ 17
The utility database ........................................................................ 18
Compatibility with earlier versions .................................................. 19

CHAPTER 2

Running Adaptive Server IQ ........................................................ 21

Starting the database server .......................................................... 21
Server command lines ................................................................... 22
Starting the server on UNIX ........................................................... 23

Using the startup utility ............................................................ 24
Typing the server startup command ........................................ 25

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