I've known about the capabilities of IQ for a long time, but never quite got round to working on it. With the introduction of the Analytics Edition of Crystal Server, it looks like the time is right. My background is 20 years of Crystal, including the Enterprise (SAP BI) products from first release, MS SQL since 6.5, QlikView, SSIS & C#.
However, all that's been on Windows, it seems that IQ is mostly used on Unix. Maybe that explains my problems so far.
The quickstart documentation gets no further than creating a trivial database and loading data from a flat file. Then it leaps into all sorts of stuff I don't need to worry about quite yet.
All I want to do is import data from MS SQL Server 2012, just copying the tables that already exist. My expectation had been some sort of wizard or UI that allowed me to select the tables in the source to have them created in the destination, then have the data import. Something like the wizards in QlikView that generate your initial script. I can't even find out the definition of what should be in the sql.ini file.
Sybooks on line hints at lots of stuff, but never gets around to an explanation.
I've found a variety of long winded Youtube videos that explain very little at the basic level before leaping into optimization.
At the moment, I have a vile UI (written in flash!) and an equally vile query tool to write script. I can't find any step by step documentation beyond 'load the ready rolled demo data'. Most of the docs I have found aren't even for version 16.
Please tell me I've missed a treasure trove of documentation, or a selection of getting started guides.