An Introduction to the INGRES Development Environment

Major features of Ingres

The principle front-end subsystems available are:

TABLES

Create, examine, update, look up tables; default reports

FORMSQBF

Query-By-Forms; create customised FORMS using VIFRED (VIsual FoRms EDitor)

JOINDEFS

Create(design)/Test multi-table queries

REPORTS

Preview default reports; Create/Run User defined Reports using RBF(Report By Forms)

APPLICATIONS

Design/Test User defined applications using Forms and the INGRES 4GL

GRAPHS

NOT available for this installation

QUERIES

Provides access to the Interactive query language(SQL) and to the QBF - a Form-based query system.

Further Reading:

• "Ingres Thru Forms and Menus" chapter 4

Exercise on firing up Ingres and geting going. Do this now.

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