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db.database

 
 

Library: Database access (OMDB)
Import: omdb.xmd


Purpose

The db.database opaque data type allows you to use either your existing ODBC-compliant software drivers or your Oracle client drivers to create a connection to and manipulate a database.

Usage Notes

Within your program, you can create as many instances of the db.database data type as you require by declaring global and local variables of type "db.database".

Please refer to Opaque Data Types for a general description of Opaque Data Types and how they are used.

Related OMDB library functions:

The functions

are used to establish and discard db.database components. The db.database objects are used as parameters by the following OMDB library functions:

Example

Once you have declared your db.database variables, you can use them with one of the db.open functions (such as db.open-odbc) in the OmniMark Database library to create connections to databases.

  import "omdb.xmd" prefixed by db.
  
  process
     local db.database my-database
  
     set my-database to db.open-odbc "MyDatabase"

Assuming that no errors occur when establishing the connection to the database, you can now manipulate the data in that database using the other functions in the OmniMark Database library.

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