Chapter 9. Performing Table and Database Operations

In the previous chapters, we dealt mostly with table columns. In this chapter, we will learn how to perform some operations that influence tables or databases as a whole. We will cover table attributes and how to modify them, and will also discuss multi-table operations.

Various links that enable table operations have been put together on the Operations page of the Table view. Here is an overview of this page:

Performing Table and Database Operations

Maintaining a table

During its lifetime, a table repeatedly gets modified and is, therefore, continually growing and shrinking. Outages may occur on the server, leaving some tables in a damaged ...

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