OverviewIf you listen to conversations among database programmers, a word you might hear more frequently than you'd otherwise expect is "CRUD". That word is an acronym for Create, Read, Update, and Delete - the four basic database operations that are performed thousands of times every second, by machines all over the world. Every book about database programming covers these four operations, and this one is no exception.
In previous chapter, we described how you could create and then add new records to a table. That means we've got the first half of CRUD covered already; the second half - updating and deleting the records in a database - is the subject of this chapter. Specifically, you will see how to:
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