Ingres II HOWTO

Pal Domokos, pal.domokos@usa.net

1. Introduction

• 1.1 Version History
• 1.2 Copyright
• 1.3 Aim of the HOWTO
• 1.4 Disclaimer

2. The Ingres Software Development Kit

• 2.1 University Ingres and Commercial Ingres
• 2.2 The Software Development Kit
• 2.3 The SDK CD

3. System Requirements

• 3.1 Hardware
• 3.2 Software
• 3.3 The ingres User and II_SYSTEM

4. Preparing for the Installation

• 4.1 Ingres Environment Variables
• 4.2 II_LOG_FILE and II_DUAL_LOG
• 4.3 Database Locations
• 4.4 The iidbdb database
• 4.5 II_DATABASE
• 4.6 II_CHECKPOINT
• 4.7 II_DUMP
• 4.8 II_JOURNAL
• 4.9 II_WORK
• 4.10 Other Ingres Environment Variables

5. The Installation Process

• 5.1 Starting the Installation Program
• 5.2 Express Install
• 5.3 Manual Install
• 5.4 Completing the Initial Configuration
• 5.5 Re-installation
• 5.6 Command Line Install
• 5.7 The Installer's Log

6. First Steps

7. Basic System and Database Administration

• 7.1 Starting and Stopping Ingres
• 7.2 New Ingres Users and Locations
• 7.3 Creating and Destroying Databases
• 7.4 Collation Sequence
• 7.5 Backup and Recovery
• 7.6 Configuring Ingres
• 7.7 Monitoring Ingres
• 7.8 Message Files

8. Web Access

• 8.1 ingvalidpw
• 8.2 Configuring Apache
• 8.3 ICE Setup

9. Miscellaneous Topics

• 9.1 Automatic Startup and Shutdown
• 9.2 ingmenu
• 9.3 Circumventing Ingres Net
• 9.4 Forms-Based Development Tools
• 9.5 Ingperl and Perl DBI
• 9.6 Ingres links