New system stored procedures

This version of Sybase IQ has several new system stored procedures that facilitate the tasks of the database administrator when gathering information about database objects, renaming objects, and monitoring IQ components, users, connections, and tasks. The new stored procedures are listed in Table 1-1.

For more information, see Chapter 10, “System Procedures” in the Sybase IQ Reference Manual.

Table 1-1: New IQ system stored procedures

Procedure name

Description

sp_iqcursorinfo

Displays information about cursors currently open on the server

sp_iqdatatype

Displays information about system data types and user-defined data types

sp_iqevent

Displays information about system and user-defined events

sp_iqhelp

Displays information about system and user-defined objects and data types

sp_iqjoinindex

Displays information about join indexes

sp_iqpkeys

Displays information about primary keys and primary key constraints by table, column, table owner, or for all IQ tables in the database

sp_iqprocedure

Displays information about system and user-defined procedures

sp_iqprocparm

Displays information about stored procedure parameters, including result set variables and SQLSTATE/SQLCODE error values

sp_iqrename

Renames user-created tables, views, columns, indexes, constraints (unique, primary key, foreign key, and check), stored procedures, and functions

sp_iqshowpsexe

Displays information about the settings of database options that control the priority of tasks and resource usage for connections

sp_iqsysmon

Monitors multiple components of Sybase IQ, including the management of buffer cache, memory, threads, locks, I/O functions, and CPU utilization

sp_iqwho

Displays information about all current users and connections or about a particular user or connection