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Appendix A
file holds information about all of your data sources for that level. For example,
your marketing department will have one file, dba02.inf, that contains the aliasing
informatio
n for all of the database views established for the marketing department.
Each person in the marketing department will have a file, dba03.inf,thatcontains
customized views of all of the databases that he or she uses.
In the Datab
ase Access Administrator, Aliases, Variable Names, and Hide Orders
are inherited from the top down.
Example. If the Regions table is hidden at the Enterprise level, it is invisible at
both the De
partment and Personal levels. This table would not be displayed in the
Database Wizard.
Example. The field JOBCAT in the Employee Sales table is not aliased at the
Enterpris
e level, but it is aliased as Job Categories at the Department level. It
appears as Job Categories at the Personal level. Additionally, if the Employee Sales
table is aliased as Employee Information at the Personal level, the original field
(Employe
eSales.JOBCAT) would appear in the Database Wizard as ’Employee
Information’.’Job Categories’.
To start the Database Access Administrator, run the file spssdbca.exe,whichis
installed in your SPSS directory. For more information about the Database Access
Adminis
trator, refer to its online Help.