DISPLAY DATABASE

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Purpose

Display information about the active database

Syntax

DISPLAY DATABASE [TO FILE <.txt filename> | (<expC>)]

See Also

ADATABASES(), ALTER INDEX, ALTER TABLE, CLOSE DATABASES, CLOSE TABLES, COMPILE DATABASE, COPY DATABASE, CREATE DATABASE, CREATE INDEX, CREATE TABLE, CREATE VIEW, DBUSED(), DISPLAY INDEXES, DISPLAY SCHEMAS, DISPLAY TABLES, DROP DATABASE, DROP INDEX, DROP TABLE, GETENV(), LIST DATABASE, LIST INDEXES, LIST SCHEMAS, LIST TABLES, OPEN DATABASE, SET EXCLUSIVE, USE

Description

The DISPLAY DATABASE command is used to display information about the currently active database.

  • Database Name, e.g. southwind
  • Database Path, e.g. C:\lianja\data\southwind\

and for each table in the database the equivalent of DISPLAY STRUCTURE INDEX followed by DISPLAY DICTIONARY:

  • Table file name
  • Number of records
  • Date of creation
  • Date of last update
  • Encryption status
  • Field names, types, sizes and description
  • Total record length
  • Production DBX file name
  • Index tag names, keys, types and lengths
  • Dictionary information

TO <file>

The display output will be sent to the specified file. The filename can be substituted with a <expC>, enclosed in round brackets, which returns a valid filename. If no file extension is specified, then ".txt" will be used.

Example

open database southwind
display database to file sw_info