Hour 12. Working with the DBA Functions
What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
How to open a database
How to add data to the database
How to extract data from the database
How to change and delete items
How to store more complex types of data in DBM-style databases
Whichever platform you use, you will almost certainly have a DBM-style database system available to you. DBM stands for database manager, and DBM-like systems enable you to store and manipulate name/value pairs on your system.
DBA stands for database abstraction layer, and these functions are designed to provide a common interface to a range of file-based database systems.
Although DBA functions do not offer the power of a SQL database, they are flexible and easy to use. The fact that DBA functions ...
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