About This Document; Supported Release Version Updates (Rvus); Intended Audience; New And Changed Information In This Edition - HP Neoview SQL Reference Manual

About This Document

This manual describes reference information about the syntax of SQL statements, functions, and
other SQL language elements supported by the Neoview database software.
The Neoview SQL statements and utilities are entered interactively or from script files using the
client-based utility, Neoview Script. For information on Neoview Script, see the Neoview Script
Guide.
NOTE:
In this manual, SQL language elements, statements, and clauses within statements are
based on the ANSI SQL:1999 standard.

Supported Release Version Updates (RVUs)

HP Neoview Release 2.2.

Intended Audience

This manual is intended for database administrators and application programmers who are using
SQL to manage a database on an HP Neoview data warehousing platform.
The reader should be familiar with structured query language (SQL) and with the American
National Standard Database Language SQL:1999.

New and Changed Information in This Edition

Section
"ALTER MATERIALIZED VIEW
Statement" (page 44)
"ALTER MVGROUP Statement" (page 45)
"CALL Statement" (page 53)
"CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW
Statement" (page 60)
"CREATE TABLE Statement" (page 69)
"CURRENT_ROLE Function" (page 314)
"CURRENT_USER Function" (page 317)
"DELETE Statement" (page 90)
"DROP MVGROUP Statement" (page 95)
"EXPLAIN Function" (page 339)
"EXPLAIN Statement" (page 104)
"GRANT Statement" (page 115)
"GRANT EXECUTE Statement" (page 117)
"GRANT SCHEMA Statement" (page 119)
"INSERT Statement" (page 121)
"MAINTAIN MVGROUP" (page 184)
"MERGE INTO Statement" (page 129)
"Privileges" (page 245)
New or Changed Information
Updated considerations.
Added Considerations subsection for ALTER MVGROUP.
New statement.
Updated syntax.
Added DISK POOL and ALIGNED | PACKED format to the list of
attributes.
New function.
New function.
The option NOLOG is changed to NOMVLOG.
Added Considerations subsection for DROP MVGROUP.
New function.
New statement.
Corrected syntax.
New statement.
New statement.
The option NOLOG is changed to NOMVLOG.
Deleted some considerations.
Added a consideration on self-referencing INSERT.
The keyword LOG is changed to MVLOG.
New statement.
Updated to include information on schemas.
Supported Release Version Updates (RVUs) 23