Mergeant manual
Vivien Malerba
malerba@gnome-db.org
Copyright
© 2000 - 2003 by Vivien Malerba
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction and overview
What is Mergeant?
Data manipulated in Mergeant
Automatically known database informations
User provided information
Making queries
Data definition queries
Data manipulation queries
Using a console for direct access
Document handling
Execution environment
A practical example
Mergeant's user interface
Main window
Menus description
SQL Console
Tables relations
Generalities on relations
Creation and deletion of relations
Global view of the relations
Data manipulation queries
Making SELECT queries
The 'Objects' tab
The 'Automatic dependencies' tab
The 'Where clauses' tab
The 'Options' tab
The 'Test SQL' tab
Last comment on SELECT queries
Other kind of DML queries: INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE
Grid (or tabular) view
Forms
Plugins usage
Why plugins?
Defining plugins usage
Usage summary tab
Data types tab
Individual objects tab
Creating reports
Database structure and objects management
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Foreword