Database Builder

This document explains how to use and configure the DataFlex Database Builder tool.

Database Builder enables you to create, modify, and delete the tables used in a DataFlex application. In addition, it enables you to repair indexes and data, and to restructure tables (including tables from earlier revisions of DataFlex).

Getting Started with Database Builder

Explains how to launch Database Builder, selecting workspaces, and a guided tour of the tool’s main elements.

Building Tables

Explains how to create and edit tables, columns and indexes.

Connecting with Other Database Systems

Explains how to use Database Builder with SQL & ODBC database drivers such as those for Microsoft SQL Server, Pervasive.SQL, IBM DB2, ODBC, etc.

Database Maintenance

Explains how to perform database-maintenance operations such as rebuilding indexes, cleaning up bad data, fixing corrupted table headers, editing file lists, etc.

General Topics

This section covers other database-related topics such as administration modes, relational database techniques, etc.