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A compendium of the most frequent information requested on the telephone hotline, which costs $2.00 per minute, relating to problems and procedures of using dBase IV database software. Includes detailed descriptions of each type of user menu, operational advice from the basic to the esoteric, explanations of data security and collision avoidance tactics, and other topics. Illustrated with many drawings of screens (not available by phone). No bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780442013844
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 2/1/1993
  • Series: VNR Computer Library
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 367
  • Product dimensions: 7.40 (w) x 9.21 (h) x 0.66 (d)

Table of Contents

Ch. 1 Overview 3
What Is dBASE IV? 3
dBASE IV as a Database Management System 4
dBASE IV Fundamentals 9
The Control Center 21
Utilities 31
Ch. 2 Databases and Indexes 35
What is a Database? 35
Basic Field Types 37
How to Create and Modify a Database 39
How Records Are Ordered 49
Record Searching 63
Ch. 3 Query by Example 87
View Queries 87
How to Create a View Query 88
Elements of Queries 105
Update Queries 121
Design and Normalization 125
Ch. 4 Forms 157
What is a Form? 157
How Forms are Made 158
How to Create a Form 159
Field Customization 184
Non-Field Customization 192
Ch. 5 Reports 207
What is a Report Form? 207
How to Create a Report Form 208
Ch. 6 Labels 251
What is a Label Form? 251
How to Create a Label Form 252
The Menus 261
Ch. 7 Multiuser Issues 273
Collision Avoidance 273
Characteristics of Locking 278
Transaction Processing 281
Data Security 285
Initiation and Termination of Sessions 294
Ch. 8 Printing 307
Printer Control 308
Ch. 9 Open Architecture 339
Design Surface Programs 340
How Design Surface Programs are Installed 345
Index 365
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