EPOC OPL Guide & Reference Glossary


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Term Topic Meaning See Also

table

Data File Handling

The physical representation of a set of records consisting of fields within a database file.

The tabular model of databases is sometimes called the relational database model.

view, database

transaction

Data File Handling

A fundamental concept in the EPOC DBMS. A transaction is a single pass of related changes to a database file grouped together for efficiency and data integrity.

EPOC DBMS transactions are atomic operations.

DBMS, database, commit, atomic

translate

Introducing OPL

To convert a program from human-readable and editable text into a form which OPL can run.

program

translator

OPL Basics

A program which translates OPL code from source form to runnable form.

source code