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

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

Other sources of information

Use the Sybase Getting Started CD, the SyBooks CD, and the Sybase Product Manuals Web site to learn more about your product:

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The SyBooks CD contains product manuals and is included with your software. The Eclipse-based SyBooks browser allows you to access the manuals in an easy-to-use, HTML-based format.

Some documentation may be provided in PDF format, which you can access through the PDF directory on the SyBooks CD. To read or print the PDF files, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Refer to the SyBooks Installation Guide on the Getting Started CD, or the README.txt file on the SyBooks CD for instructions on installing and starting SyBooks.

The Sybase Product Manuals Web site is an online version of the SyBooks CD that you can access using a standard Web browser. In addition to product manuals, you will find links to EBFs/Maintenance, Technical Documents, Case Management, Solved Cases, newsgroups, and the Sybase Developer Network.

To access the Sybase Product Manuals Web site, go to Product Manuals.

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