Programming Guide - Actian

Glossary3GL procedureA 3GL procedure is a procedure written in a third-generation language, such asC, that you can call by name from a script or 4GL procedure. 3GL proceduresare used to perform operations that are outside the scope of OpenROAD butare available from a 3GL.abstract classaggregate function (set function)aggregationarrayassistantautocommit onGeneral classes that are used for classification only are known as abstractclasses in object-oriented programming.An aggregate function returns a single value based on the contents of acolumn. Aggregate functions are also called set functions.The aggregation inter-class relationship describes an object that is composedof separate, smaller objects that function together.An array is a named set of rows in which each row is a reference variable thatpoints to an object of a given system or user class.Assistants are procedures that can be attached to a frame or a field template.They can be designed to prompt the user for varying amounts of informationused to customize the frame or field according to the user's needs or toperform a certain function each time the field or frame is invoked.Autocommit on describes a transaction management state in which eachdatabase statement is an individual transaction automatically committed whenit is successfully executed.Glossary 491