Introduction to database manager

A database manager is a tool that provides for all possible operations related to manipulation with entities stored in some of program databases. The term "program database" stands e.g. for a database of materials, cross-sections, catalog blocks, etc. defined in a current project.

It is obvious that:

• individual entities of these databases must be somehow defined;

• there must be a way to edit them, copy them, delete them;

• the user must have an opportunity to review parameters of the individual entities;

• there must exist a procedure to select one entity as a "default" for functions requiring an entity of that type as an input parameter;

• the approach to all these points must be unique regardless the type of database.

Examples of database dialogs:

Materials

Cross-sections