Summary of coding examples

The following commands are detailed in this chapter:

• Retrieval commands
  • Fetch rows by key
  • Fetch every row
  • Fetch every row from last to first
• Update commands
  • Insert a new row or replace it
  • Fetch a row and replace it
  • Empty a table
• Table control commands
  • Define a new table
  • Change the table name and definition in memory
  • Store a new generation
  • Copy a table from one tableBASE library to another
• Library maintenance commands
  • Delete all generations of a table
  • Rename a table
  • Initialize a tableBASE library
• System control commands
  • Locate a table from a list of libraries
  • Save and restore current status
• Sample tableBASE applications
  • Fetch a row from a table
  • Update an existing table
  • Sequentially process all rows in a table
  • Generic search
  • Define a dynamic table to summarize data in memory
  • Access a table that may not exist
  • Establish another key with which to search a table
  • Concatenate tableBASE libraries
  • Temporarily change a list of concatenated tableBASE libraries
  • Access a table indirectly
• Other language examples
  • ASSEMBLER coding example