UltraLite Embedded SQL User's Guide
About This Manual
This book is part of the SQL Anywhere documentation set. This section describes the books in the documentation set and how you can use them.
The SQL Anywhere Studio documentation is available in a variety of forms: in an online form that combines all books in one large help file; as separate PDF files for each book; and as printed books that you can purchase. The documentation consists of the following books:
Introducing SQL Anywhere Studio This book provides an overview of the SQL Anywhere Studio database management and synchronization technologies. It includes tutorials to introduce you to each of the pieces that make up SQL Anywhere Studio.
What's New in SQL Anywhere Studio This book is for users of previous versions of the software. It lists new features in this and previous releases of the product and describes upgrade procedures.
Adaptive Server Anywhere Getting Started This book is for people new to relational databases or new to Adaptive Server Anywhere. It provides a quick start to using the Adaptive Server Anywhere database-management system and introductory material on designing, building, and working with databases.
Adaptive Server Anywhere Database Administration Guide This book covers material related to running, managing, and configuring databases and database servers.
Adaptive Server Anywhere SQL User's Guide This book describes how to design and create databases; how to import, export, and modify data; how to retrieve data; and how to build stored procedures and triggers.
Adaptive Server Anywhere SQL Reference Manual This book provides a complete reference for the SQL language used by Adaptive Server Anywhere. It also describes the Adaptive Server Anywhere system tables and procedures.
Adaptive Server Anywhere Programming Guide This book describes how to build and deploy database applications using the C, C++, and Java programming languages. Users of tools such as Visual Basic and PowerBuilder can use the programming interfaces provided by those tools. It also describes the Adaptive Server Anywhere ADO.NET data provider.
Adaptive Server Anywhere Error Messages This book provides a complete listing of Adaptive Server Anywhere error messages together with diagnostic information.
SQL Anywhere Studio Security Guide This book provides information about security features in Adaptive Server Anywhere databases. Adaptive Server Anywhere 7.0 was awarded a TCSEC (Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria) C2 security rating from the U.S. Government. This book may be of interest to those who wish to run the current version of Adaptive Server Anywhere in a manner equivalent to the C2-certified environment.
MobiLink Synchronization User's Guide This book describes how to use the MobiLink data synchronization system for mobile computing, which enables sharing of data between a single Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft or IBM database and many Adaptive Server Anywhere or UltraLite databases.
MobiLink Synchronization Reference This book is a reference guide to MobiLink command line options, synchronization scripts, SQL statements, stored procedures, utilities, system tables, and error messages.
iAnywhere Solutions ODBC Drivers This book describes how to set up ODBC drivers to access consolidated databases other than Adaptive Server Anywhere from the MobiLink synchronization server and from Adaptive Server Anywhere remote data access.
SQL Remote User's Guide This book describes all aspects of the SQL Remote data replication system for mobile computing, which enables sharing of data between a single Adaptive Server Anywhere or Adaptive Server Enterprise database and many Adaptive Server Anywhere databases using an indirect link such as e-mail or file transfer.
SQL Anywhere Studio Help This book includes the context-sensitive help for Sybase Central, Interactive SQL, and other graphical tools. It is not included in the printed documentation set.
UltraLite Database User's Guide This book is intended for all UltraLite developers. It introduces the UltraLite database system and provides information common to all UltraLite programming interfaces.
UltraLite Interface Guides A separate book is provided for each UltraLite programming interface. Some of these interfaces are provided as UltraLite components for rapid application development, and others are provided as static interfaces for C, C++, and Java development.
In addition to this documentation set, PowerDesigner and InfoMaker include their own online documentation.
SQL Anywhere Studio provides documentation in the following formats:
Online documentation The online documentation contains the complete SQL Anywhere Studio documentation, including both the books and the context-sensitive help for SQL Anywhere tools. The online documentation is updated with each maintenance release of the product, and is the most complete and up-to-date source of documentation.
To access the online documentation on Windows operating systems, choose Start
To access the online documentation on UNIX operating systems, see the HTML documentation under your SQL Anywhere installation.
Printable books The SQL Anywhere books are provided as a set of PDF files, viewable with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
The PDF files are available on the CD ROM in the pdf_docs directory. You can choose to install them when running the setup program.
Printed books The complete set of books is available from Sybase sales or from eShop, the Sybase online store. You can access eShop by clicking How to Buy