Main Menu

The DBISAM Manager main menu provides the following submenus:

Database

This menu allows you to

Register an existing database in the Register Database Dialog (you need this to start working with the database in DBISAM Manager)

Unregister Database

View registration information of the database, selected in the DB Explorer tree

Register multiple databases on one host (Register Host)

Unregister all databases on the host (Unregister Host)

Connect to the database, selected in the DB Explorer tree

Disconnect from the database, selected in the DB Explorer tree

Add a new database to the server in the Add Database Wizard

Delete the database, selected in the DB Explorer tree

Create a new table

Create a new table with the same properties as one of the existing has (Duplicate Object)

Exit from DBISAM Manager (Hint: to disable confirming exit from DBISAM Manager use Environment Options | Preferences)

View

The View menu provides the following functions

Show/Hide the DB Explorer panel

Select the displayed toolbars

Show/Hide the SQL Assistant area

Call the To-Do List for planning your work with the database

Tools

This menu gives access to the following DBISAM Manager tools

Query processing tools (SQL Editor and Visual Query Builder)

SQL and Metadata processing tools (SQL Script, Extract Metadata, Print Metadata)

Manager of users and users' grants (User Manager)

External tools, added through the External Tools dialog.

Services

This menu provides tools for working with the server and maintaining databases and tables. See DBISAM Services for details.

Options

The items of this menu give you full customization of all the DBISAM Manager tools and editors (see DBISAM Manager Options for details), managing External Tools and Localizing DBISAM Manager.

Windows

This is a standard menu for managing the program windows, allowing switching between the windows, arranging windows, and closing all or selected windows quickly. For managing windows see also the Windows tab of the DB Explorer.

Help

The Help menu allows you not only to call the help file you are reading, but also see what's new in the last version of DBISAM Manager, send a bug report and purchase DBISAM Manager on-line (see Purchasing DBISAM Manager for details).