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Introducing OmniConnect for Adaptive Server Enterprise

About This Book

About This Book

This book, Introducing OmniConnect for Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, provides a quick overview of OmniConnect.

Audience

This book is written for System Administrators, database administrators, and users of OmniConnect(TM) for Sybase(R) Adaptive Server(TM) Enterprise.

Adaptive Server Enterprise Documents

The following documents comprise the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise documentation:

• The Release Bulletin for your platform - contains last-minute information that was too late to be included in the books.

  A more recent version of the Release Bulletin may be available on the World Wide Web. To check for critical product or document information that was added after the release of the product CD, use SyBooks(TM)-on-the-Web.

• The Adaptive Server installation documentation for your platform - describes installation and upgrade procedures for all Adaptive Server and related Sybase products.
• The Adaptive Server configuration documentation for your platform - describes configuring a server, creating network connections, configuring for optional functionality, such as auditing, installing most optional system databases, and performing operating system administration tasks.
• What's New in Adaptive Server Enterprise Release 11.5? - describes the new features in Adaptive Server release 11.5, the system changes added to support those features, and the changes that may affect your existing applications.
• Navigating the Documentation for Adaptive Server - an electronic interface for using Adaptive Server. This online document provides links to the concepts and syntax in the documentation that are relevant to each task.
• Transact-SQL User's Guide - documents Transact-SQL(R), Sybase's enhanced version of the relational database language. This manual serves as a textbook for beginning users of the database management system. This manual also contains descriptions of the pubs2 and pubs3 sample databases.
• System Administration Guide - provides in-depth information about administering servers and databases. This manual includes instructions and guidelines for managing physical resources and user and system databases, and specifying character conversion, international language, and sort order settings.
• Adaptive Server Reference Manual - contains detailed information about all Transact-SQL commands, functions, procedures, and datatypes. This manual also contains a list of the Transact-SQL reserved words and definitions of system tables.
• Performance and Tuning Guide - explains how to tune Adaptive Server for maximum performance. This manual includes information about database design issues that affect performance, query optimization, how to tune Adaptive Server for very large databases, disk and cache issues, and the effects of locking and cursors on performance.
• The Utility Programs manual for your platform - documents the Adaptive Server utility programs, such as isql and bcp, which are executed at the operating system level.
• Security Administration Guide - explains how to use the security features provided by Adaptive Server to control user access to data. This manual includes information about how to add users to Adaptive Server, administer both system-defined and user-defined roles, grant database access to users, and manage remote Adaptive Servers.
• Security Features User's Guide - provides instructions and guidelines for using the security options provided in Adaptive Server from the perspective of the non-administrative user.
• Error Messages and Troubleshooting Guide - explains how to resolve frequently occurring error messages and describes solutions to system problems frequently encountered by users.
• Component Integration Services User's Guide for Adaptive Server Enterprise and OmniConnect - explains how to use the Adaptive Server Component Integration Services feature to connect remote Sybase and non-Sybase databases.
• Adaptive Server Glossary - defines technical terms used in the Adaptive Server documentation.

Other Sources of Information

Use the SyBooks(TM) and SyBooks-on-the-Web online resources to learn more about your product:

• SyBooks documentation is on the CD that comes with your software. The DynaText browser, also included on the CD, allows you to access technical information about your product in an easy-to-use format.

  Refer to Installing SyBooks in your documentation package for instructions on installing and starting SyBooks.

• SyBooks-on-the-Web is an HTML version of SyBooks that you can access using a standard Web browser.

  To use SyBooks-on-the-Web, go to http://www.sybase.com, and choose Documentation.

Conventions

What you type to the computer screen is shown as:

Enter text in an entry field

Computer output is shown as:

OmniConnect returns results.

Command arguments you replace with a non-generic value are shown in italics:

machine_name

If You Need Help

Each Sybase installation that has purchased a support contract has one or more designated people who are authorized to contact Sybase Technical Support. If you cannot resolve a problem using the manuals or online help, ask a designated person at your site to contact Sybase Technical Support.