object

• an entity within the Environment that can be accessed and manipulated, a column definition, for example.

ODBC

• Open Database Connectivity; (1) a standard for accessing different databases from PCs or other small workstations, providing a common SQL-based method for translating requests into the database tool's native SQL (2) software developed by Microsoft that enables Windows applications to connect to various databases.

ODBC Administrator

• software written by both Microsoft and the ODBC Driver software company to create and maintain DataSources.

ODBC Driver

• software written by DISC specifically for Omnidex-enhanced databases;
• the Omnidex module that sends ODBC calls to the Omnidex retrieval engine that accesses the database, attached to a container application by Driver Manager.

ODBC-aware applications

• an application that uses Microsoft's ODBC technology to access databases.

• an advanced indexing product from Dynamic Information Systems Corporation (DISC), providing greater query flexibility than native database methods and accelerating database search and retrieval by reducing I/O.

• the Omnidex open systems API that performs the index look-ups, qualifying counts, and data retrievals, including the routines oaqualify, oaselect, and oafetch. Also known as OmniAccess.

• word 11 of the status array, which contains an error code if a call to an Omnidex intrinsic failed.

Omnidex detail

• a detail set linked to an Omnidex master by an Omnidex SI (search item).

• see Domain.

• the word of the status array that indicates whether an error has occurred. This word differs between default (active) error handling and passive error handling.

• a binary integer (I2, J2, or K2) value that is used to identify records during keyword searches (for Multiple keys);
• the arbitrary sequential ID of a record assigned by Omnidex.
• Also known as ODXID or ODX ID

• the indexed columns or composite indexes designated for Omnidex keyword or sorted indexing through the DBINSTAL installation utility program.

• Omnidex intrinsics that provide retrieval access to Multiple and Sorted key indexes and maintenance to Omnidex indexes.

• a master data set that contains one or more fields specified for Omnidex keyword retrieval, or a master that is linked by the Omnidex SI to a detail that contains one or more Multiple keys.

• the index file that contains information about the database structure, including which fields are specified for Omnidex retrieval.

• the search item field in an Omnidex master which may also be the Omnidex ID for the set (that is, the SI-ID). See Search Item.

• refers to data entities where one entity corresponds to many other entities, as in the case of a search item value to many detail records.

• refers to data entities where one entity corresponds to only one other entity, as in the case of a search item value to a master record.

• any special character or token used in Omnidex retrievals, for example, the Multifind operator (&).

• Multiple criteria values or predicates that records must match one or more of, but not all.

• A join that includes all rows from joined tables that meet the specified search criteria. Rows without matching records in the joined table are matched with null values.