Introduction to PowerBuilder

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Creating units Table

To create a new table, select Tables located under ODBC > Product folder and select New Table from the popup menu or click on the icon. This invokes the Create Table dialog box:

Type the following text for the prompts. We will explain about them later in the session.

Name

Data Type

Width

Decimals

Null

Default

unit

Char

2

<none>

No

(None)

unit_description

varchar

10

<none>

No

(None)

Save the table as units by selecting File > Save from the menu and close the pane. Once you close the pane, PowerBuilder displays the created table in the Object Layout and it looks something like this picture:

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