Terminology Used in this Guide
The documentation observes the following distinction in terminology:
• A command is an operation that you execute at the operating system level.
• A statement is an operation that you embed within a program or execute interactively from a terminal monitor.
A statement can be written in Ingres 4GL, a host programming language (such as C), a database query language (SQL or QUEL), or in the Report-Writer language (for report specifications).