About this book

This guide is for Sybase® IQ utility program users who require reference material for the utility programs. Utility programs are commands that you invoke directly from the operating system. Familiarity with relational database systems and introductory user-level experience with Sybase IQ is assumed. Use this book to get information about available syntax, parameters, and options. Other books in the Sybase IQ 15.2 documentation set provide more context on how to carry out particular tasks.

The Sybase IQ 15.2 documentation set includes:

• Release Bulletin for your platform – contains last-minute information that was too late to be included in the books.A more recent version of the release bulletin may be available. To check for critical product or document information that was added after the release of the product CD, use the Sybase Product Manuals Web site.

• Installation and Configuration Guide for your platform – describes installation, upgrading, and some configuration procedures for Sybase IQ.

• New Features Summary Sybase IQ 15.2 – summarizes new features and behavior changes for the current version.

• 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 Library – contains a concise description of the IMSL C Stat Library time series C functions. This book is available only to RAP – The Trading Edition™ Enterprise users.

• Introduction to Sybase IQ – includes exercises for those unfamiliar with Sybase IQ or with the Sybase Central™ database management tool.

• Performance and Tuning Guide – describes query optimization, design, and tuning issues for very large databases.

• Quick Start – discusses how 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 – 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:

  • System Administration Guide: Volume 1 – describes start-up, connections, database creation, population and indexing, versioning, collations, system backup and recovery, troubleshooting, and database repair.

  • System Administration Guide: Volume 2 – describes how to write and run procedures and batches, program with OLAP, access remote data, and set up IQ as an Open Server. This book also discusses scheduling and event handling, XML programming, and debugging.

• Time Series Guide – describes SQL functions used for time series forecasting and analysis. You need RAP – The Trading Edition™ Enterprise to use this product option.

• Unstructured Data Analytics in Sybase IQ – explains how to store and retrieve unstructured data in Sybase IQ databases. You need a separate license to install this product option.

• User-Defined Functions Guide – provides information about user-defined functions, their parameters, and possible usage scenarios.

• Using Sybase IQ Multiplex – tells how to use multiplex capability, which manages large query loads across multiple nodes.

• Utility Guide – provides Sybase IQ utility program reference material, such as available syntax, parameters, and options.

Because Sybase IQ shares many components with SQL Anywhere Server, a component of the SQL Anywhere® package, Sybase IQ supports many of the same features as SQL Anywhere Server. The IQ documentation set refers you to SQL Anywhere 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).

• SQL Anywhere Server – SQL Usage describes how to design and create databases; how to import, export, and modify data; how to retrieve data; and how to build stored procedures and triggers.