Starting a DBE Session

Before you can execute ISQL or SQL commands that operate on a DBEnvironment, you must begin a DBE session. You begin a DBE session with either the CONNECT statement, as illustrated below, or the START DBE statement:

   isql=> CONNECT TO '../sampledb/PartsDBE';

Refer to the ALLBASE/SQL Reference Manual for additional information on starting DBE sessions. Appendix C of that manual describes how to set up a copy of the sample DBEnvironment PartsDBE for practice use.