Creating a Free Table

A free table is a table that is not associated with a database. You might want to create a free table, for example, to store lookup information that many databases share.

To create a new free table

• In the Project Manager, select Free Tables, and then New to open the Table Designer.

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• Use the FREE keyword with the CREATE TABLE command.

For example, the following code creates the free table smalltbl with one column, called name:

CLOSE DATABASES

CREATE TABLE smalltbl FREE (name c(50))

If no database is open at the time you create the table, you do not need to use the keyword FREE.