About this book

Read this book to get a hands-on introduction to Sybase® IQ. This book assumes no technical knowledge of Sybase IQ or any other Sybase product.For detailed information, refer to other books in the Sybase IQ documentation set.

The Sybase IQ 15.2 documentation set includes:

• 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 Library contains 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.

• New Features Summary Sybase IQ 15.2 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.

• 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 storage and retrieval of unstructured data within the Sybase IQ data repository. You need a separate license to install this product option.

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

• 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.

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.