Practical articles on working with InterSystems IRIS and Caché: SQL, globals, performance, metadata problems and troubleshooting.https://sqldatalens.com/enhttps://sqldatalens.com/sql-data-lens-joins-data-prudentia/https://sqldatalens.com/sql-data-lens-joins-data-prudentia/SQL DATA LENS is now developed and supported by Data Prudentia GmbH. Existing licences, support arrangements and points of contact all stay as they are.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTProduct newscompany newsData Prudentiahttps://sqldatalens.com/easily-copy-tables-between-databases-and-servers/https://sqldatalens.com/easily-copy-tables-between-databases-and-servers/Select the source and target namespace in the Server Navigator, open Tools then Copy Data, and copy a table into an existing target or a newly created one.Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTHow-todata pumpercopy datanamespacesmigrationhttps://sqldatalens.com/detecting-and-resolving-metadata-inconsistencies-in-intersystems-iris-with-sql-data-lens/https://sqldatalens.com/detecting-and-resolving-metadata-inconsistencies-in-intersystems-iris-with-sql-data-lens/Three ways stored IRIS values can contradict their own metadata — access failures, silent corruption and undetected mutation — and how to find each one.Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTInterSystems IRISmetadatadata qualityglobalsJDBCIRIShttps://sqldatalens.com/wmi_repository_is_broken/https://sqldatalens.com/wmi_repository_is_broken/Licence activation reads the machine fingerprint through WMI. If Windows reports a broken repository, these steps rebuild the network adapter classes.Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTTroubleshootingactivationlicensingWMIWindowserror code 28https://sqldatalens.com/build-in-support-for-duckdb/https://sqldatalens.com/build-in-support-for-duckdb/DuckDB ships inside SQL DATA LENS, so querying a local CSV, Parquet or JSON file takes an in-memory connection and a drag-and-drop — no install, no driver download.Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMTHow-toDuckDBCSVParquetJSONanalysishttps://sqldatalens.com/want-to-focus-on-your-database-objects-and-hide-all-the-system-objects/https://sqldatalens.com/want-to-focus-on-your-database-objects-and-hide-all-the-system-objects/InterSystems IRIS ships hundreds of system classes and schemas. One checkbox on the connection leaves the Server Navigator showing only your own objects.Sat, 09 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTHow-toServer Navigatorsystem objectsIRISconnectionhttps://sqldatalens.com/save-result-available-in-every-result-grid/https://sqldatalens.com/save-result-available-in-every-result-grid/Export any result grid to CSV, XML, HTML, JSON, SQL or Excel — and use direct to file instead when the result set is too large to hold in the grid.Sat, 13 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMTHow-toexportCSVExcelJSONXMLhttps://sqldatalens.com/setting-up-a-connection-to-intersystems-iriscache/https://sqldatalens.com/setting-up-a-connection-to-intersystems-iriscache/Every field of the IRIS and Caché connection dialogue explained, including the options that decide which namespaces and system objects appear in the tree.Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMTGetting startedconnectionIRISCachénamespacesJDBChttps://sqldatalens.com/working-with-namespaces/https://sqldatalens.com/working-with-namespaces/The Server Navigator lists every namespace on an IRIS or Caché server, including remote ones and whether they respond — no hand-configured JDBC URLs.Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTGetting startednamespacesServer NavigatorIRISCachéremote namespaceshttps://sqldatalens.com/first-steps-with-sql-data-lens/https://sqldatalens.com/first-steps-with-sql-data-lens/Add your first InterSystems IRIS or Caché server, group your connections, and open a query editor — the three things to do in the first five minutes.Thu, 09 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMTGetting startedgetting startedconnectionserver navigatorSQL editorhttps://sqldatalens.com/import-cache-connections/https://sqldatalens.com/import-cache-connections/Pull the IRIS and Caché instances already registered on your machine straight into the Server Navigator, with host, port and namespace filled in for you.Thu, 09 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMTGetting startedconnectionimportIRISCachéhttps://sqldatalens.com/sql-data-lens-comes-with-a-light-and-dark-theme-that-scales-well-on-hidpi-displays/https://sqldatalens.com/sql-data-lens-comes-with-a-light-and-dark-theme-that-scales-well-on-hidpi-displays/Flat Light and Flat Dark ship with SQL DATA LENS, and scaling follows the per-monitor DPI you set in Windows rather than a setting inside the application.Thu, 09 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMTHow-tothemesdark modeHiDPIuser interfacehttps://sqldatalens.com/with-a-csv-text-connection-you-can-list-view-and-analyse-your-text-files-like-sql-tables/https://sqldatalens.com/with-a-csv-text-connection-you-can-list-view-and-analyse-your-text-files-like-sql-tables/A CSV text connection turns a file, a folder of files or a ZIP archive into something you can SELECT from — with the driver's SQL limitations spelled out.Thu, 09 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMTHow-toCSVtext filesCsvJdbcZIPanalysis