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Procedures

The procedures menu is a simple, intuitive way to produce reports and other outputs from a database which do not require custom programming. It generates VisualPQL which can be looked at, saved and used as the basis for other programs.

You can produce reports, cross-tabulations, interface files and various other outputs using the VisualPQL Procedures.

A VisualPQL program processes data and selects sets of variables which meet the selection criteria and uses a procedure to produce output.

To create a query, select the appropriate procedure, select the variables to output and any selection criteria to apply to the database records. Then run the query. Queries can be saved and re-run.

For most procedures, the only choices you must make are which procedure to run and which variables to use.

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