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This chapter describes how to use the Database option. To perform any of the following actions, select the Database option from the main menu.

• Create a database or select a database.

  The database you work with is called the current database.

• Retrieve and display information about a database, such as available dbspaces and the text of routines.
• Delete an existing database or close the current database.
• Commit or rollback transactions.

You can only access databases that reside on the current database server. To select a database server as current, you can specify a database server when you invoke DB–Access, you can use the Connection menu, or you can run a CONNECT statement from the SQL menu. If you do not explicitly select a database server, DB–Access uses the default database server that the $INFORMIXSERVER environment variable specifies as the current database.