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From: jsm@Apple.COM (Jeff Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Apple's DAL ...
Message-ID: <11110@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Nov 90 18:38:17 GMT
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In article <32270@netnews.upenn.edu> charalam@grad1.cis.upenn.edu (Georghios Charalambous) writes:
>Does anybody know whether DAL (Apple's connectivity language) supports 
>updates to a host database? I called Apple and they said it does. But

Yes, it supports updates.  Quoting from the DAL documentation on the UPDATE
statement: "Modifies data in one or more rows of a table based on row
selection criteria."  Sounds like updating a database to me.  You can add
and delete rows, too.

Jeff Miller
Macintosh System Software