HP 3000 Manuals

Getting Started with HP IMAGE/SQL

Tables versus Data Sets 

In TurboIMAGE/XL, the access mechanism is the data set, which consists of
a set of entries containing an ordered series of data items.  A data set
is either a detail or a master, and, if it is a master, it is either
manual or automatic.

In SQL, a table is an unordered set of rows containing columns.  In
IMAGE/SQL, a table is synonymous with a data set.  Tables are not labeled
manual or automatic, master or detail.

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