1.2. Data manipulated in Mergeant

Mergeant manipulates two kinds of data: data provided by the DBMS and data provided by the user. The association of these two kinds of data enables Mergeant to perform some powerfull work. The data provided by the user completes the description of the database given by the DBMS (mainly more details about the structure).

When user defined data is given in place of DBMS data, it is given higher priority and is used instead of the one provided by the DBMS.

1.2.1. Automatically known database informations

As of version 0.x, Mergeant automatically knows about the following elements in a database:

1.2.2. User provided information

The user is allowed to provide informations about: