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Introducing SQL Server for Windows NT

About This Book

About This Book

This book, Introducing Sybase SQL Server for Windows NT, provides an overview of SQL Server for Windows NT(TM), a set of Sybase(R) products for developing and deploying relational database applications on desktop platforms.

Audience

Read this guide before you install and begin using SQL Server to establish a foundation for using the product. This guide is for system administrators, managers, or anyone who will be involved in setting up or using SQL Server for Windows NT or who wants to understand how the product set fits together. This guide assumes no technical knowledge of the Sybase products.

How to Use This Guide

This guide includes the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, "Overview of SQL Server for Windows NT," introduces relational database management systems and client/server architecture. It also describes each of the products in the SQL Server for Windows NT set of products.
• Chapter 2, "Terms and Concepts," defines some of the basic terminology necessary for understanding discussions about using SQL Server.
• Chapter 3, "Using SQL Server," provides a brief introduction to some of the most common tasks a user performs with a new SQL Server for Windows NT.

Related Documents

The Read Me First card included in your product package lists the products included with your SQL Server for Windows NT products. It also provides a road map for locating the related Sybase documentation available to you. Installing Sybase SQL Server for Windows NT lists the version numbers of the included products.

Conventions

This manual uses the following style conventions:

• Within text, the names of files, directories, and database objects appear in italics:

  \data\master.dat

• Examples showing the use of Transact-SQL commands are printed like this:

  select titles, pub_id 
      from titles 

• The names of utilities, procedures, commands, and scripts appear in the following font:

  sp_revokelogin

• Terms that you can find in the glossary appear in a special font. In most cases you can click directly on the word to jump to its definition in the glossary. If the term is defined directly in the text, there is no hypertext link to the definition.

  global variable