Inside This Manual

1 Things to Know Before You Start

This manual contains information on using the Eloquence database management system (DBMS). The manual is organized as follows:

Chapter 1: "Things to Know Before You Start" is an introduction to the use of this manual.
Chapter 2: "Introduction" provides a prelude to database concepts and the way the Eloquence DBMS is organized.
Chapter 3: "Database Definition" describes how to define a database.
Chapter 4: "Database Manipulation" lists and describes the database statements used to access and manipulate database information.
Chapter 5: "Database Utilities" explains the database utilities used to maintain the database included in A.06 and later.
Chapter 6: "Example Operations" shows example database operations and sample programs.
Appendix A: "Pack Statements" discusses transferring string and numeric data to and from a string variable by using Pack Statements.
Appendix B: "DBML Syntax" lists the syntax for the database manipulation statements.
Appendix C: "Error Messages" lists Eloquence DBMS error messages and gives a brief explanation after each message.
Appendix D: "Eloquence Library" lists and decribes the functions available in the library which users can integrate into their own programs.
Appendix E: "Obsolete Database Utilities" provides documentation for database utilities which are no longer used by the current Eloquence revision. (Since Eloquence A.05.xx will be in use for some time but did not include online documentation we thought it would be helpful to include the documentation here.)

Eloquence Database Manual - 19 DEC 2002