HP (Hewlett-Packard) c-tree-SQL ISQL and Tool reference Guide Printer User Manual


 
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Documentation Overview
PURPOSE OF THIS MANUAL
This manual provides reference material for the ISQL interactive SQL utility as well as the
dbload, dbdump, and dbschema administrative tools provided in the c-treeSQL environment. It
also includes a tutorial describing how to use the ISQL utility.
AUDIENCE
The reader of this manual should be familiar with general SQL concepts.
STRUCTURE
The manual contains the following chapters:
SYNTAX DIAGRAM CONVENTIONS
Syntax diagrams appear in Courier type and use the following conventions:
Chapter 1 Describes the use of Interactive SQL (ISQL) for performing ad-hoc queries
and for report generation.
Chapter 2 Includes tutorials for getting started with ISQL.
Chapter 3 Includes reference information for ISQL statements.
Chapter 4 Describes the data load utility, dbload, which is used to load data from files
into existing tables of a database.
Chapter 5 Describes the data unload utility, dbdump.
Chapter 6 Describes the data definition export utility, dbschema.
Appendix A Includes full source code for tutorials.
UPPERCASE Uppercase type denotes reserved words. You must include reserved
words in statements, but they can be upper or lower case.