Working with Tables

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This chapter describes how to use the TIBTable dataset component in your database applications. A table component encapsulates the full structure of and data in an underlying database table. A table component inherits many of its fundamental properties and methods from TDataSet and TIBCustomDataSet. Therefore, you should be familiar with the general discussion of datasets in Understanding Datasets and before reading about the unique properties and methods of table components discussed here.

Topics

• Using table components
• Setting up a table component
• Controlling read/write access to a table
• Searching for records
• Sorting records
• Specifying fields with IndexFieldNames
• Working with a subset of data
• Deleting all records in a table
• Deleting a table
• Renaming a table
• Creating a table
• Synchronizing tables linked to the same database table
• Creating master/detail forms

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