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Temp-table attributes

This section describes the attributes you can access through a temp-table handle.

DYNAMIC attribute

This LOGICAL attribute returns true if the temp-table is dynamic and false if is static.

NAME attribute

This is the name of the temp-table. For a static temp-table, it is the name you gave it in the DEFINE TEMP-TABLE statement. For a dynamic temp-table, it is the name you specify in the TEMP-TABLE-PREPARE method. Thus, the NAME attribute is not defined for a dynamic temp-table until you have prepared it.

PREPARED attribute

This LOGICAL attribute returns true if the temp-table has been prepared and false otherwise. It always returns true for a static temp-table.

DEFAULT-BUFFER-HANDLE attribute

Every temp-table, whether static or dynamic, has a default buffer. This attribute holds the handle of that buffer. You use the buffer to create or delete records in the table. The default buffer has the same name as the temp-table, just as the default buffer for a database table has the same name as the table. The default buffer handle is not assigned until the temp-table is prepared.

PRIMARY attribute

This CHARACTER attribute holds the name of the primary index for the table. You can inherit the definition of the primary index from another table, in the CREATE-LIKE method, or you can define a temp-table index to be primary. This is the index the records in the table are sorted on, if there are no other sort criteria or if another index is not used to satisfy selection criteria of a WHERE clause on the table. You can set the value of the PRIMARY attribute for a dynamic temp-table only if the temp-table has not yet been prepared.

UNDO attribute

This LOGICAL attribute is true if the temp-table has undo properties and false if it is NO-UNDO. Because the static DEFINE TEMP-TABLE statement allows you to specify the NO-UNDO keyword on the definition, just as you can for variables, the default value of UNDO for a static temp-table is true. For a dynamic temp-table, the default value of UNDO is false. You can set the UNDO attribute for a dynamic temp-table only before it has been prepared.