TurboDB Engine Documentation

New in TurboDB Win32 v5

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TurboDB 5 comes with a large number of new and enhanced features. Note that some of those new features require existing tables to be updated to table level 4 in order to be available. Check in the respective section to learn whether this is the case.

•Uncorrelated and correlated sub-queries
•The top keyword restricts the number of rows in the result set
•Strong encryption based on either Blowfish or Rijndael (AES) algorithm
•Time fields with a resolution of seconds or milliseconds
•Default values for table columns
•Checks for table rows
•The CASE construct
•Referential integrity with optional action cascading
•Ultra-fast maintained full-text indexes with ranking and better SQL integration
•Transaction support with automatic crash recovery
•Better typed aggregated columns
•Join conditions can now be arbitrary search-conditions including calculations and logical operands, not just comparisons
•UNION, EXCEPT and INTERSECT
•Nullable character types
•Managed databases with database-wide properties
•The CAST function
•Optimized page sizes according to predefined capacity (table level 4)
•Supports up to 50 indexes per table (table level 4)
•The index files are named <table name>|<index name>.ind to prevent naming conflicts (table level 4 only).
•Supports column names with spaces and special characters (table level 4)