HP c-tree-SQL ISQL and Tools manual Introduction, Overview

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Chapter 1

Introduction

1.1OVERVIEW

Interactive SQL (often referred to throughout this manual as ISQL) is a utility supplied with c- treeSQL that lets you issue SQL statements directly from a terminal and see results displayed at the terminal. You can use interactive SQL to:

Learn how SQL statements work

Test and prototype SQL statements to be embedded in programs

Modify an existing database with data definition statements

Perform ad-hoc queries and generate formatted reports with special ISQL formatting state- ments

With few exceptions, you can issue any SQL statement in interactive SQL that can be embed- ded in a program, including CREATE, SELECT, and GRANT statements. Interactive SQL includes an online help facility with syntax and descriptions of the supported statements.

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