What are Table Bases in mainframes

Padmaja-T · New User Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 4 Location: florida

Hi,

Can anyone tell me what are Table bases in Mainframes? I just know that Table base is a dataset to store a group of tables. But i want to know what is the difference between a file and a tablebase.

Thanks,
Padmaja

William Thompson · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:06 am

Table bases, no, it doesn't ring any bells....

Database tables? Databases do contain tables (in a broad sense).

A file can be considered a collection or records, each record containing various fields of data.

A database can be considered a collection of tables, each table a collection or rows, each row containing various fields of data.

Padmaja-T · New User Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 4 Location: florida

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. But i was not asking about database tables.
I know little about Tablebases.

? A great way to manage and access application table data
? tableBASE is a third-party vendor product
? owned and maintained by Data Kinetics Ltd.

Its basically.. one dataset with many tables.

Thanks,
Padmaja

William Thompson · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:23 am

If "tableBASE" was what you were lookinf, then why did you ask about "Table bases"?

Padmaja-T · New User Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 4 Location: florida

I din't know the way to write it when i posted the mail...

Padmaja-T · New User Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 4 Location: florida

Thanks a lot...