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Updating data

After users have made changes to data in a DataWindow control,
you can use the Update method to save those changes in the database.

In PowerBuilder, the code looks like this:

Update sends to the database all inserts, changes, and deletions
made in the DataWindow control since the last Update method. When
you are using an external transaction object, you can then commit
(or roll back) those database updates. In PowerBuilder, you use
SQL statements. In the Web ActiveX, you use methods and properties
of the transaction object. In the Web DataWindow client control,
update requests call the update method in the server component, which
handles the commit or rollback.

For more specifics on how a DataWindow control
updates the database (that is, which SQL statements are sent in
which situations), see “Updating the database”.

Examples

The following example shows code that connects, retrieves,
updates, commits or rolls back, and disconnects from the database.

Although the example shows all database operations in a single
script or function, most applications separate these operations.
In a PowerBuilder application, for example, an application could
connect to the database in the application Open event, retrieve
and update data in one or more window scripts, and disconnect from
the database in the application Close event.

PowerBuilder

The following statements retrieve and update data using the transaction
object EmpSQL and the DataWindow control dw_emp:

Web ActiveX

The following JavaScript statements retrieve and update data using
the transaction object EmpSQL and the DataWindow control dw_emp.

Handling retrieval or update errors

A production application should include error tests after
each database operation.For more about checking for errors, see “Handling DataWindow
errors”
.


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