please any one can tell me modifytable keyword used in DDIC?
what is a basic diffrence between modify table and update key
word?

Answer Posted / nigesh

Update statement updates only the existing records if the
key matches.
Modify statement also acts like update statement, but in
addition to it if the primary key does not match then new
record will be inserted to database.

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