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RECITAL ESSENTIALS

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About this book

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Recital Essentials, serves as an introduction to the Recital Database and scripting language and provides real-world examples of common uses. No previous programming experience is necessary, as this book explains programming concepts in familiar and easy-to-understand terms. It also includes a fundamental Recital language guide. Written by the developers of Recital, Recital Essentials provides details on best practices to use when developing and deploying Recital desktop and web applications.

Authors
Barry Mavin
Yvonne Milne

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Recital
2. Getting Started with Recital
3. The Recital Compiler
4. A Recital Primer
5. Recital Variables and Constants
6. Recital Operators
7. Recital Flow Control and Looping
8. Recital Functions
9. Recital Arrays
10. Working With String Data in Recital
11. Working With Date and Time Data in Recital
12. Working With Numeric Data in Recital
13. Working with Files and File Systems in Recital
14. Working with Directories in Recital
15. Recital Object-Oriented Programming
16. Error and Exception Handling
17. Using Shared Code libraries
18. Using the Code and Data Profiler
19. Debugging and Testing Techniques
20. Understanding Recital Databases
21. Using Navigational Data Access Commands in Recital
22. Using Recital SQL
23. Importing and Exporting Data
24. Working with Multimedia Data
25. Backup and Restore Databases
26. Verifying Database Integrity
27. Data Replication
28. Securing Your Data
29. Database Timelines
30. Tuning and Performance Optimization
31. Building Data Agents Using the Messaging Functions
32. Remote Data Connectivity
33. Client/Server Data Access With ODBC and JDBC
34. Fault Tolerance and High Availability
35. Appendix A: Recital Data Types