DATABASE Statement

Identifies the CA-Datacom/DB database to use.

Type: Optional statement
Applies to: access descriptor

Syntax

DATABASE | DB<=> <"> Datacom-database-name<"> ;

Details

The DATABASE statement enables you to specify the name of the CA-Datacom/DB database that contains the CA-Datacom/DB table that you want to access. In CA-Datacom/DB, Database is a 32-character field that names an entity-occurrence of type DATABASE in CA-DATADICTIONARY.
The database name is required only if the table specified in the TABLE statement is not unique in the dictionary. If the name contains special characters or national characters, enclose it in quotation marks.
DB is the alias for the DATABASE statement.