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Basic ABL

Work with the OpenEdge Database

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Table of Contents
  • Learn about ABL
    • What is ABL?
    • Run example code
    • Connect to a database
  • Concepts and Syntax
    • ABL basic syntax
      • Procedure file
      • Classes and interfaces
      • Statements
      • Blocks
      • Comments
    • Variables and data types
      • Compound assignment operators
      • Specify display format for variables
      • Data type processing
        • Work with numeric data
        • Work with dates and times
        • Work with logical data
        • Work with character strings
          • Work with CHARACTER data
            • Convert data to the ABL CHARACTER type
          • Work with LONGCHAR data
          • Work with lists
        • Work with one-dimensional arrays
        • Work with handles
    • Control flow
      • IF ... THEN ... ELSE statement
      • CASE statement
      • DO statement
      • FOR statement
      • REPEAT statement
    • Expressions and operators
    • Built-in functions
    • Handle-based and class-based objects
    • Code for portability
  • Procedures and User-defined Functions
    • ABL procedures
    • User-defined functions
  • Compile and Run
    • R-code and the AVM
    • COMPILE statement
      • Set compiler options
        • Require-return-values compiler option
    • RUN statement
    • Run using the command line
  • Work with the OpenEdge Database
    • Tables and buffers
    • Data access
    • Queries
    • Transactions
    • Record locks
    • Update records
    • Online database changes using ABL
  • Temp-tables and Datasets
    • Temp-tables
      • Include files for temp-table definitions
      • Empty a temp-table
      • Copy records from a database to a temp-table
    • ProDataSets
      • ProDataSet concepts
      • Define and use a dataset
        • Define a dataset
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Work with the OpenEdge Database

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  • Last Updated: January 16, 2024
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    • OpenEdge
    • Version 12.8
    • Documentation

In the following topics, you learn important concepts and ABL language constructs for working with the OpenEdge database. You first learn how to access tables and buffers. Then you learn how to construct queries to limit the data retrieved. You also learn how to manage transactions and how to handle record locking. Finally you learn how to update records.

Contents
  • Tables and buffers
  • Data access
  • Queries
  • Transactions
  • Record locks
  • Update records
  • Online database changes using ABL
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