Topics:

• Content of the Tutorial
• Two Ways to Follow the Tutorial
• Building the Sample Application
• Step 1: Beginning and Ending the Procedure
• Step 2: Selecting Records
• Step 3: Collecting Transaction Values
• Step 4: Writing Transactions to the Data Source
• Step 5: Issuing the Procedure
• Step 6: Browsing Through a Stack and Using Triggers
• Step 7: Displaying and Editing an Entire Stack in a Winform

Maintain is a rich data maintenance language that offers many sophisticated features. However, the basic design is simple enough so that you can quickly learn the basic concepts and syntax and begin developing useful applications right away.

The following topics introduce you to Maintain's basic concepts and syntax. As you follow the tutorial's step-by-step approach, you build a simple Maintain procedure and become familiar with:

• How to perform fundamental data maintenance operations.
• How different operations function together within a Maintain procedure.
• What the equivalent operations are in a MODIFY request.