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Re: What is a Table outside a database?

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Subject: Re: What is a Table outside a database?
From: "Mr. Weasel Willits" <bmxer01 at pacbell dot net>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:49:21 -0800
On 31/01/02 19:16, Mr. Weasel Willits said:

 create table Im_A_Dork
 (
 id integer,
 who varchar,
 why varchar,
 butmom varchar,
 primary key (id)
 )

 curs = db.SQLSelect("select * from Im_A_Dork")
 for
 who = curs.field("who")
 ...
 ..


 It's actually SQL syntax to create a database.

Sorry, I'm still lost. So how do you use "create table" to get a database
cursor?



REALbasic's database documentation sucks because it assumes you already know about databases and SQL so they don't teach anything to you. I hope to remedy this in the future when my schedule opens up (ha!).

First create a database using NewREALdatabase

You use database.ExecuteSQL to execute an sql statement (like the one above). Then you use another SQL "select" statement to get certain columns (Fields) of certain records into a cursor. (like the code above).

I can't go into more detail now because I have HW to do but if you read through the developer documentation, find examples on the ftp site, and download Norman's tutorial (http://www.kirais.com/) (i think that's the link) then you can start to figure it out.


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