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You can create, alter and drop tables and their related indexes and constraints easily using graphical wizards within Surveyor/400. In most cases, adding a field or expanding a field through Surveyor/400 runs much faster than traditional methods, since indexes often do not have to be rebuilt.
Demonstrates the creation of a primary key for a table
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Access to table maintenance can be restricted by user id |
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Create, alter and drop tables |
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Table field attributes which can be specified include column name, data type, length, scale, nullable, default value and remarks |
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Create Indexes for a table, including Unique, Non Unique and Encoded Vector indexes |
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Create Primary keys, Unique keys and Foreign keys for a table |
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Wizard can show the corresponding SQL statements (good for learning SQL or to run later as a script) |
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When adding fields to an existing table or expanding field lengths, the existing table data, authorities and indexes are retained |
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