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To link your forms and reports to the data in tables, dBASE Plus provides a set of data objects. In the designers, these objects are available on the Data Access page of the Component palette. These components make specialized database access functionality available to your dBASE Plus applications.

This section discusses the following topics:

The dBASE Plus data model

Linking a form or report to tables

Creating master-detail relationships

Creating and using a data module

Before you use the data objects, you should understand the dBASE Plus data model, described in the next section. See Related Topics.

Note

Although the old dBASE Data Manipulation Language (DML) still exists for backward compatibility, those methods are no longer recommended. The new data object model is recommended because it realizes the full power of object-oriented programming.