ISQL Users

ISQL is a useful facility for many types of ALLBASE/SQL users:

Application programmers who use ISQL as a program development tool:
- To obtain information about table and view structures.
- To try out queries to be embedded in applications.
- To build test databases for debugging data manipulation operations and for testing programs.
Database administrators who use ISQL as a DBA tool:
- To create, build, and maintain databases.
- To define data and conduct authorization operations as required.
- To query system catalog views to monitor DBEnvironment usage.
- To load or unload tables, and install or drop preprocessed modules.
- To define and maintain DBEFiles and DBEFileSets to manage space.
These users invoke SQLUtil from ISQL for DBEnvironment maintenance activities.
End users who use ISQL to retrieve or modify data.

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