Neoview Database Administrator's Guide (R2.4)

1 Introduction to the HP Neoview Platform
The HP Neoview platform provides enterprise-class, SQL data warehousing to support your
business intelligence needs. HP leverages industry-standard servers and 30 years of experience
with highly available, massively parallel processing in this platform, to provide availability,
scalability, and performance.
Installation and management of the platform is streamlined and simple.
About This Guide
This guide is intended for those who perform standard database administration tasks.
It explains basic concepts and tells you how to get started quickly and easily. You can find
additional information about installing and maintaining the hardware in the HP Neoview Owner’s
Manual.
For More Information
See...For Information About...
HP Technical Library
http://docs.hp.com/en/busintellsol.html
The Neoview platform, manuals, and downloads
Managing Roles, User IDs, and Linux Accounts Chapter 3
(page 21)For detailed information about specific windows,
or detailed information about how to perform specific
tasks, see DB Admin online help.
How to use Neoview DB Admin to manage roles and user
IDs
Planning Your Database Chapter 4 (page 33)How to use Neoview DB Admin to manage your database
objects
Managing Database Objects Chapter 5 (page 37)How to use Neoview DB Admin to perform database
operations such as updating statistics or defragmenting
Performing Database Operations Chapter 6 (page 87)How to perform other administrator operations
• “Reconfiguring ODBC Client Data Sources” (page 113)
• “Configuring ODBC Client Data Sources for Update
Operations” (page 113)
• “Removing ODBC Client Data Sources” (page 113)
For detailed information about specific windows or
detailed information about how to perform specific tasks,
see the ODBC Data Source Administrator online help.
How to use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source
Administrator to manage ODBC client data sources
Performing Database Connectivity Tasks “Performing
Database Connectivity Tasks” (page 113)
How to use NDCS to allow Neoview SQL to access an
HP SQL database.
at: ODBC Programmer’s ReferenceHow to use Microsoft Open Database Connectivity
(ODBC)
For Additional Help
• Problems
Use the management tools to try to fix problems. (See “Management Tools” (page 17).) If a
problem persists, or the management tools are unable to perform the needed task, call your
HP representative. See also the HP Neoview Owner’s Manual.
• Messages
Many messages that the platform returns are intended only for use by HP. If critical events
occur, the platform automatically triggers a call to HP. For user-visible messages, see the
Neoview Messages Manual.
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