Additional information is available in Sybase IQ and SQL Anywhere documents.
Release Bulletin provides information about last-minute changes to the product and documentation.
Installation and Configuration Guide provides platform-specific instructions on installing, migrating to a new version, and configuring Sybase IQ for a particular platform.
Advanced Security in Sybase IQ covers the use of user encrypted columns within the Sybase IQ data repository. You need a separate license to install this product option.
Error Messages lists Sybase IQ error messages referenced by Sybase error code, SQLCode, and SQLState, and SQL preprocessor errors and warnings.
IMSL Numerical Library User’s Guide: Volume 2 of 2 C Stat Librarycontains a concise description of the IMSL C Stat Library time series C functions. This book is only available to RAP – The Trading Edition™ Enterprise users.
Introduction to Sybase IQ includes hands-on exercises for those unfamiliar with Sybase IQ or with the Sybase Central™ database management tool.
Large Objects Management in Sybase IQ explains storage and retrieval of Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) and Character Large Objects (CLOBs) within the Sybase IQ data repository. You need a separate license to install this product option.
New Features in Sybase IQ 15.0 documents new features and behavior changes for version 15.0.
New Features Summary Sybase IQ 15.1 summarizes new features and behavior changes for the current version.
Performance and Tuning Guide describes query optimization, design, and tuning issues for very large databases.
Quick Start lists steps to build and query the demo database provided with Sybase IQ for validating the Sybase IQ software installation. Includes information on converting the demo database to multiplex.
Reference Manual – Includes two reference guides to Sybase IQ:
Reference: Building Blocks, Tables, and Procedures describes SQL, stored procedures, data types, and system tables that Sybase IQ supports.
Reference: Statements and Options describes the SQL statements and options that Sybase IQ supports.
System Administration Guide – Includes two volumes:
System Administration Guide: Volume 1 describes startup, connections, database creation, population and indexing, versioning, collations, system backup and recovery, troubleshooting, and database repair.
System Administration Guide: Volume 2 describes writing and running procedures and batches, programming with OLAP, accessing remote data, setting up IQ as an Open Server, scheduling and event handling, programming with XML, and debugging.
Using Sybase IQ Multiplex tells how to use multiplex capability, designed to manage large query loads across multiple nodes.
Utility Guide provides Sybase IQ utility program reference material, such as available syntax, parameters, and options.
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Because Sybase IQ shares many components with SQL Anywhere®, a component of SQL Anywhere Studio®, Sybase IQ supports many of the same features as SQL Anywhere. The IQ documentation set refers you to SQL Anywhere Studio documentation where appropriate.
Documentation for SQL Anywhere includes:
SQL Anywhere Server – Database Administration describes how to run, manage, and configure SQL Anywhere databases. It describes database connections, the database server, database files, backup procedures, security, high availability, and replication with Replication Server, as well as administration utilities and options.
SQL Anywhere Server – Programming describes how to build and deploy database applications using the C, C++, Java, PHP, Perl, Python, and .NET programming languages such as Visual Basic and Visual C#. This book also describes a variety of programming interfaces such as ADO.NET and ODBC.
SQL Anywhere Server – SQL Reference provides reference information for system procedures, and the catalog (system tables and views). It also provides an explanation of the SQL Anywhere implementation of the SQL language (search conditions, syntax, data types, and functions).
You can also refer to the SQL Anywhere documentation in the SQL Anywhere Studio 11.0 collection at Product Manuals and in DocCommentXchange.
Documentation for Sybase Software Asset Management (SySAM) includes:
Sybase Software Asset Management (SySAM) 2 introduces asset management concepts and provides instructions for establishing and administering SySAM 2 licenses.
SySAM 2 Quick Start Guide tells you how to get your SySAM-enabled Sybase product up and running.
FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide explains FLEXnet Licensing for administrators and end users and describes how to use the tools that are part of the standard FLEXnet Licensing distribution kit from Sybase.