Mergeant manual

Vivien Malerba

Copyright © 2000, 2001 Vivien Malerba

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Table of Contents
Foreword
1. Introduction and overview
1.1. What is Mergeant?
1.2. Data manipulated in Mergeant
1.2.1. Automatically known database informations
1.2.2. User provided information
1.3. Making queries
1.3.1. Data definition queries
1.3.2. Data manipulation queries
1.4. Document files
1.5. General functionning scheme
1.6. A practical example
2. Main interface of gASQL
2.1. Main screen
2.2. Menus description
3. Tables relations
3.1. Generalities on relations
3.2. Creation and deletion of relations
3.3. Global view of the relations
4. Data manipulation queries
4.1. Making SELECT queries
4.1.1. The 'Objects' tab
4.1.2. The 'Automatic dependencies' tab
4.1.3. The 'Where clauses' tab
4.1.4. The 'Options' tab
4.1.5. The 'Test SQL' tab
4.1.6. Last comment on SELECT queries
4.2. Other kind of DML queries: INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE
4.2.1. Grid (or tabular) view
4.2.2. Forms
5. Plugins usage
5.1. Why plugins?
5.2. Defining plugins usage
5.2.1. Usage summary tab
5.2.2. Data types tab
5.2.3. Individual objects tab
6. Creating reports
7. Database structure and objects management
List of Figures
1-1. Diagram to summarize what has just been said
1-2. Diagram to summarize the relations of the example database
2-1. Main Mergeant screen
2-2. Main Mergeant screen
3-1. Tables properties' dialog showing a relation
3-2. Global dialog for relations
4-1. Example of a query edition dialog
4-2. Objects tab of the query edition dialog
4-3. Joins tab of the query edition dialog
4-4. Conditions tab of the query edition dialog
4-5. SQL tab of the query edition dialog
4-6. View and Form properties edition
4-7. Example of grid (or tabular) view
4-8. Example of form view
5-1. Plugins usage summary tab
5-2. Plugins data types tab
5-3. Plugins individual objects tab
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