Description

This class presents the fundamentals of designing a NOMAD relational database, loading and maintaining data, and positioning within the database. The class does not contain sections on creating reports from a database.

Audience

Programmers and analysts who build or maintain NOMAD databases.

Prerequisite

Introduction to NOMAD Reporting or equivalent experience.

Objectives

Students will be able to:

• navigate through the NOMAD windows environment
• understand and describe the database design process
• design a database and describe it to NOMAD
• define and use expressions and extracted information
• define and use arrays
• use DBEDIT to enter new data or change existing data in the database
• write a procedure to add or change data in the database using PROMPT and a simple form
• construct and test a procedure to load large amounts of data into a database
• move through the database using both specific and relative positioning commands
• use the NOMAD collection to generate load and dump procedures