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CHAPTER 1    Overview of Adaptive Server IQ System Administration
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Anywhere tables have a different format than IQ tables. While the commands 
you use to create objects in an Anywhere database are the same as those for an 
IQ Store, there are some differences in the features you can specify in those 
commands. Always use the command syntax in this book or the Adaptive Server 
IQ Reference Manual for operations in the IQ Store.
This book explains how you manage your IQ Store and its associated Catalog 
Store. If you have an Anywhere database, or if you have Anywhere-style tables 
in your Catalog Store, see the Adaptive Server Anywhere documentation for 
details of how to create, maintain, and use them. 
Concurrent operations
Adaptive Server IQ allows multiple users to query a database at the same time, 
while another user inserts or deletes data, or backs up the database. Changes to 
the structure of the database, such as creating, dropping, or altering tables, 
temporarily exclude other users from those tables, but queries that only access 
tables elsewhere in the database can proceed. 
Adaptive Server IQ keeps your database consistent during these concurrent 
operations by maintaining multiple versions of table data. To understand this 
approach, see Chapter 8, “Transactions and Versioning”.
Stored procedures
Adaptive Server IQ stored procedures help you manage your system. Stored 
procedures give you information about your database and users, and carry out 
various operations on the database. This section briefly describes the stored 
procedures. For more information, see the Adaptive Server IQ Reference 
Manual
.
A stored procedure typically operates on the database in which you execute it. 
For example, if you run the stored procedure 
sp_addlogin
 in the 
asiqdemo
 
database, it adds a user to 
asiqdemo
.