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Since you access data in files, effective data management begins with control over the environment of these files. You must choose how to access the data and how and when to limit that access.
In This Section
- How to: Set Data Access
- Explains how to specify the access type, exclusive or shared, when using a table.
- Locking Data
- Discusses methods to manually or automatically lock access to tables and records to manage access in a shared environment.
- Updating Data Using Multiple Form Instances
- Discusses how data is updated and how locks on records may affect other instances of a form.
- How to: Use Data Sessions
- Describes how to use data sessions to ensure that each user in a shared environment has a secure, exact duplicate of the working environment, and to ensure that multiple instances of a form can operate independently.
- Customizing the Environment of a Data Session
- Discusses how you can use private data sessions to establish custom SET command settings within a single session of Visual FoxPro.
- Buffering Data
- Describes data buffering, and how to use it to protect data during updates.
- How to: Enable Buffering
- Explains how to enable record and table buffering to protect data during updates.
- How to: Append and Delete Records in Table Buffers
- Explains how to append and delete records with table buffering enabled.
Reference
- CURSORSETPROP(В ) Function
- Specify property settings for a Visual FoxPro table or cursor.
- TABLEUPDATE( ) Function
- Commit changes made to a buffered row, a buffered table, cursor, or cursor adapter.
- TABLEREVERT(В ) Function
- Discard changes made to a buffered row or a buffered table or cursor and restore the OLDVAL(В ) data for remote cursors and the current disk values for local tables and cursors.
- LOCK( ) Function
- Attempt to lock one or more records in a table.
- Data Session Window
- Use the Data Session window to open and display tables or views, establish temporary relationships, and set work area properties.