Preface

This book describes how to get an ALLBASE/SQL DBEnvironment up and running in the shortest possible time. ALLBASE/SQL is Hewlett-Packard's relational database management system, which is offered on HP 3000 computers using the MPE/iX operating system and on HP 9000 computers using the HP-UX operating system. MPE/iX, Multiprogramming Executive with Integrated POSIX, is the latest in a series of forward-compatible operating systems for the HP 3000 line of computers.

In HP documentation and in talking with HP 3000 users, you will encounter references to MPE XL, the direct predecessor of MPE/iX. MPE/iX is a superset of MPE XL. All programs written for MPE XL will run without change under MPE/iX. You can continue to use MPE XL system documentation, although it may not refer to features added to the operating system to support POSIX (for example, hierarchical directories).

This manual is intended for new users of ALLBASE/SQL. Topics are discussed in separate chapters, as follows:

Chapter 1, "Very Basic...," presents basic ideas, tasks, and concepts.
Chapter 2, "Looking at Data," shows how to create an elementary database design before you create an ALLBASE/SQL DBEnvironment.
Chapter 3, "Setting Up a Database with ISQL," takes you step by step through the process of configuring a DBEnvironment, then creating and loading tables.
Chapter 4, "Building an ALLBASE/SQL COBOL Application in MPE/iX," explains how to create an embedded SQL COBOL application on MPE systems.
Chapter 5, "Building an ALLBASE/SQL C Application in HP-UX," explains how to create an embedded SQL C application on HP-UX systems.
Chapter 6, "Practice with ALLBASE/SQL Using PartsDBE," details the steps for setting up PartsDBE, the ALLBASE/SQL sample DBEnvironment, which is used for most of the examples in the ALLBASE/SQL documentation.
Chapter 7, "Comparing ALLBASE/SQL with TurboIMAGE," describes ALLBASE/SQL from the perspective of the TurboIMAGE user, maps ALLBASE/SQL concepts to TurboIMAGE concepts, and describes ALLBASE/TurboCONNECT.
Chapter 8, "Glossary," gives basic definitions of terms used in ALLBASE/SQL.

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