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ALLBASE/SQL is a relational database management system for use on
the HP 3000 Series 900 computer.
ALLBASE/SQL (Structured Query
Language) is the language you use to define and maintain data in an
ALLBASE/SQL DBEnvironment. This manual presents the techniques of embedding
ALLBASE/SQL within C language source code. This manual is intended as a learning tool and a reference guide for
C programmers. It presumes the reader has a working knowledge of C,
the MPE/iX
operating system, and ALLBASE/SQL relational database concepts. MPE/iX, Multiprogramming Executive with Integrated POSIX, is the latest
in a series of forward-compatible operating systems for the HP 3000
line of computers.
In HP documentation and in talking with HP 3000 users, you will
encounter references to MPE XL, the direct predecessor of MPE/iX.
MPE/iX is a superset of MPE XL. All programs written for MPE XL
will run without change under MPE/iX. You can continue to use MPE XL
system documentation, although it may not refer to features added to
the operating system to support POSIX (for example, hierarchical
directories). This manual contains both basic and in-depth information about embedding
ALLBASE/SQL. Code examples are based, for the most part, on the
sample database, PartsDBE, which accompanies ALLBASE/SQL. Refer to
Appendix C in the ALLBASE/SQL Reference Manual for information about
the structure of PartsDBE and for listings of the sample database. Chapter 1, "Getting Started with ALLBASE/SQL Programming in C,"
is an introduction to ALLBASE/SQL programming which includes
information on developing, using, and maintaining programs on the
MPE XL operating system.
Chapter 2, "Using the Preprocessor," explains the ALLBASE/SQL
preprocessor and how to invoke it.
Chapter 3, "Host Variables," describes how to define and use variables
to transfer data between your C program and an ALLBASE/SQL
DBEnvironment.
Chapter 4, "Runtime Status Checking and the sqlca," defines ways to monitor and
handle successful and unsuccessful SQL command execution.
Chapters 5 through 11 address the various ways to manipulate
data in an ALLBASE/SQL C program. Chapter 5, "Simple Data Manipulation," explains how to operate on
one row at a time.
Chapter 6, "Processing with Cursors," shows how
to process a multiple row query result one row at a time.
Chapter 7, "BULK Table Processing," examines the processing of multiple
rows at a time.
Chapter 8, "Using Dynamic Operations," describes the use of ALLBASE/SQL
commands that
are preprocessed at runtime.
Chapter 9, "Programming with Constraints," compares the use of statement
level integrity and row level integrity and discusses the use of integrity
constraints.
Chapter 10, "Programming with LONG Columns," discusses the LONG BINARY
and LONG VARBINARY data types.
Chapter 11, "Programming with ALLBASE/SQL Functions," describes the formatting
functions to be used with date/time data types.
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