Sybase IQ lets you import data from flat files or directly from database tables. You can also enter specified values directly into the database. Export of data to other formats is available from the Interactive SQL utility and the IQ data extraction facility.
An Sybase IQ table is a logical table; it does not contain data. All the information needed to resolve queries, including data, is contained in the Sybase IQ indexes. When you insert data into the columns in an IQ table, you are not actually adding data to the columns in the table, but rather to the column indexes. You build indexes by inserting data on a table-by-table basis.
