1 Introduction to Neoview Script

Neoview Script is a command-line interface that you download and install on a client workstation that has the Neoview JDBC Type 4 Driver installed. Operating systems that support the JDBC driver include Windows, Linux, and UNIX. The JDBC driver connects Neoview Script on a client workstation to a Neoview database on a Neoview data warehousing platform.

Figure 1-1 Neoview Script Within a Neoview Platform Network

Neoview Script enables you to perform daily administrative and database management tasks by running SQL statements interactively or from script files. You can also run Neoview Script from a Perl or Python command line or from Perl or Python programs. Neoview Script supports many SQL statements. For a list of these statements, see Appendix B (page 133).

Neoview Script does not support:

•Adding, modifying, and deleting users

•Changing user passwords

•Job scheduling

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