• Operations
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• Adding an Auto-Increment ID Field to a Table
• Append Operations
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• Prompting for Confirmation
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• Run Saved Operation
• Running Saved Operations
• Selecting Records for Operations
• Summarize Operations
• Supplying a Filter and Order at Run Time
• Symmetrical Outer Join
• Update Operations
• Using Operation Builders
• Using Quick Operations
• Using the Operation Genies
• Viewing the Xbasic of Operations

 

Using the Operation Genies

Description

Alpha Anywhere has detailed Genies to help you perform common operations. The Genies guide you step-by-step through creating an Operation in an easy to understand way. Once you have answered all the Genie's questions, the Genie automatically creates the appropriate Operation.

Genies make it easy to perform complex operations. For example, the Genies let you perform Update operations that:

• Search for a string in a field and replace it with another string

• Assign a constant value to a field

• Break a single name into its parts (e.g. separate first name and last name fields)

• Break a city/state/zip field into its parts (e.g. separate city, state and zip fields)

• Assign serial values to a field (e.g. record 1: A100, record 2: A101, record 3: A102 etc.)

• Assign random values to a field

• Assign a constant value to field, or delete a field's value

• Compute the number of days between two date values

• Compute time interval between two time values

Limitations

Desktop Applications Only