Evaluation in Iteration Functions (Mathematica Tutorial)

The built-in Mathematica iteration functions such as Table and Sum evaluate their arguments in a slightly special way. When evaluating an expression like Table[f,{i,i_max}], ...

Basic Formats (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica can routinely import and export hundreds of megabytes in all standard basic formats—in addition to supporting hundreds of more structured formats.

Dropping Tables (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

SQLDropTable drops tables from a database. An alternative, using raw SQL, is demonstrated in "Dropping Tables with Raw SQL". If you find that the examples in this tutorial do ...

Creating Tables (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

SQLCreateTable creates a new table in a database. An alternative, using raw SQL, is described in "Creating Tables with Raw SQL". If you find that the examples in this ...

Column (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Column[{expr_1, expr_2, ...}] is an object that formats with the expr_i arranged in a column, with expr_1 above expr_2, etc. Column[list, alignment] aligns each element ...

Put Data in a Grid with the Front End (Mathematica How To)

While you can programmatically create two-dimensional layouts, the Mathematica front end provides convenient tools for creating and editing two-dimensional grids of data, in ...

Constructing Lists (Mathematica Tutorial)

Lists are widely used in Mathematica, and there are many ways to construct them. Some explicit ways to construct lists. This gives a table of the first five powers of 2.

Making Definitions for Indexed Objects (Mathematica Tutorial)

In many kinds of calculations, you need to set up "arrays" that contain sequences of expressions, each specified by a certain index. One way to implement arrays in ...

DatabaseLink Tables and Data (DatabaseLink Guide)

DatabaseLink has functions for working with the tables of data in a database. It can create and drop tables, as well as fetch information about the organization of tables in ...

Symbol (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Symbol["name"] refers to a symbol with the specified name.