Programming C without variables is like, well, programming C without variables. They are so essential to the language that it doesn’t even require an analogy here. We can declare and use them as ...

A group field can also consist of other groups. In conjunction with grouping, you can assign level numbers 01 to 07 to define a group. When you access ADABAS data through the SAS/ACCESS interface, the ...

Data — a word that packs a punch but can be hard to define. Often, we use the word so loosely and generically that we fail to realize what data we need to collect from our fields. For decades, the ...

A tabular file has nothing comparable to a segment. The concept of data segments is one of the things that makes a hierarchical database different from a SAS data set and other tabular files. The rows ...

Apimac’s iDatabase 2.3 is a basic flatfile database application that offers 22 templates and 14 different field data options for handling a variety of data types. While it doesn’t go deep in terms of ...

Data breaches and exposures have become so common these days, it's difficult to keep track of them all, much less step back to mull a solution. But, perhaps out of necessity, researchers from the ...