Databases

You can manipulate databases, tables, records, and fields, as well as indexes and relations.

In This Section

• Database Manipulation Language
  Lists the commands and functions that manipulate databases.

• Field Manipulation Language
  Lists the commands and functions that make it possible for you to manipulate fields in a table.

• Index Manipulation Language
  Lists the commands and functions that perform operations on and return information about index files.

• Record Manipulation Language
  Lists the commands and functions that make it possible for you to select records within a table or position the record pointer.

• Relation Manipulation Language
  Lists the commands and functions that make it possible for you to establish or break relations between table files.

• Table Manipulation Language
  Lists the commands and functions that make it possible for you to create, manipulate, and monitor table files.

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• Language Categories
  Contains a list of language functionality and descriptions.

• Using Visual FoxPro
  Discusses how Visual FoxPro programming features are designed to improve developer productivity including Access and Assign methods, support for more graphic file formats, and language to simplify programming tasks.

• Developing Visual FoxPro Applications
  Includes conceptual information about how to develop Visual FoxPro applications, instructions for creating databases and the user interface, and other tasks needed to create Visual FoxPro applications.

• Programming in Visual FoxPro
  Discusses how you can access the full power of Visual FoxPro by creating applications. Understanding object-oriented programming techniques and the event-driven model can maximize your programming productivity.