A recordset is a customizable table used to hold and display information from a database, whether it’s a single table or the result of a query. It only refers to a single record as the “current record” and changing it won’t affect the actual database.
A recordset is a structure used in a database to hold a group of records. These records can be the contents of a single table or the result of a query. Without the ability to generate and display a recordset, a database would be nothing more than a repository for holding, but not producing, data.
A recordset is a fully customizable empty table, with infinite rows and infinite columns. When the end user requests information from the database, the database collects the desired information, inserting it into the recordset. Next, the computer reduces the recordset to the number of values returned, the number of results produced by the query. It then displays the recordset information on screen, allowing the end user access to the requested data.
Recordsets include any information returned from a computer’s database, no matter how small, large, customized, or inaccurate. If the end user requests all information from a database of employee records, the result will be a recordset. Likewise, if the end user requests something narrow, like birthdates for all employees named Ted, that information will also come in the recordsets. In this sense recordset is nothing more than a generic term used to refer to the result of a particular search.
Once generated, recordsets only refer to a single record within the database as the “current record”. This means that once the data is collected, the recordsets seemingly ignore the rest of the database. They exist on their own as separate entities that house the desired information, while the rest of the database records and files remain intact and untouched. As a result, changing the information stored in recordsets will not affect the corresponding information contained in the actual database tables.
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