Chapter 17 Steps for Using the MDS APIs and Example Code - Teradata Meta Data Services

This chapter contains illustrations and sample code for using MDS APIs. The two API example codes are:

C++ Examples

Visual Basic Examples

All example programs can be found in the sample folder installed with the Meta Data Development Kit. You can use either of the MDS APIs to:

Design your application data model defining classes, properties of each class, and the relationships between the classes.

Create an application to load your model using the AIM API Classes.

Create applications that create, read, and modify objects and collections.

The following model will be used in the examples:

Figure 27: Meta Data Model Used for Examples