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Working with Large Data Sets

When you learned about working with values, you learned about variables, shared variables, and extent variables. Variables, however, are tools for working with just a few values at a time. Some parts of your application may need to work with larger data sets—either temporary data you create in your application or temporary copies of database tables.

Progress has two important components for working with large data sets: temporary tables and work files. Understanding when to use one or the other is a topic covered in the Progress Programming Handbook .

You also learned about buffers and how Progress manages them for you. However, Progress also has the following features:

You can find information on these language statements in the Progress Language Reference .


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