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Foreign Tables Demo

The package demonstrates a practical case of the rather new feature (2023)
I borrowed the file Countries.csv from CSVGEN for my demo
Instead of linking the whole table just a few columns were selected.
This is the obvious advantage of the approach:

Collect what you need

Avoid pollution of your environment with useless content
More details on building this example in my Article on DC

Prerequisites

Make sure you have git and Docker desktop installed.

Installation

Clone/git pull the repo into any local directory https://github.com/rcemper/foreign-tables

$ git clone https://github.com/rcemper/foreign-tables.git

To build and start the container run:

$ docker compose up -d && docker compose logs -f

To open IRIS Terminal do:

$ docker-compose exec iris iris session iris
USER>

or using iTerm

http://localhost:42773/iterm/

To access IRIS System Management Portal

http://localhost:42773/csp/sys/UtilHome.csp

How to use it

From Terminal in namespace USER just start

do ^DemoF

foreign-tables Works