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About This Book
Audience
This book is for anyone who is using InfoMaker® to work with data.
Although the book does not assume you have knowledge about any
particular topic, having some familiarity with relational databases and
SQL is helpful. Consult books on these topics as needed.
InfoMaker works with many DBMSs
This book describes how to use InfoMaker using a SQL Anywhere™
database for examples. You use InfoMaker with many different DBMSs,
as described in Connecting to Your Database.
How to use this book
This book describes InfoMaker, what you use it for, and how you work in
its environment to accomplish your goals. The book shows you how to use
InfoMaker to create reports, queries, forms, data pipelines, and
applications. It also shows you how to work with databases in InfoMaker.
To help you do your work more easily, the book is divided into parts that
focus on accomplishing particular goals:
If you want to Use these parts of the book
Learn about the environment and work
with libraries
Part One, The InfoMaker Environment
Manage databases and create data
pipelines
Part Two, Managing Databases
Create reports Part Three, Reports
Create queries Chapter 5, Defining Reports
Create forms Part Four, Forms
Create applications Part Five, Applications
Look up information about operators,
expressions, and InfoMaker functions
Part Six, Reference
Look up information about identifiers
and the extended attribute system
tables
Part Seven, Appendixes