Mathematica Scripts (Mathematica Tutorial)

A Mathematica script is simply a file containing Mathematica commands that you would normally evaluate sequentially in a Mathematica session. Writing a script is useful if ...

Output Formats for Numbers (Mathematica Tutorial)

Output formats for numbers. These numbers are given in the default output format. Large numbers are given in scientific notation. This gives all numbers in scientific ...

Portability of MathLink Programs (Mathematica Tutorial)

The Mathematica side of a MathLink connection is set up to work exactly the same on all computer systems. But inevitably there are differences between external programs on ...

Setting Up Mathematica Packages (Mathematica Tutorial)

In a typical Mathematica package, there are generally two kinds of new symbols that are introduced. The first kind are ones that you want to 'export' for use outside the ...

Tracing Evaluation (Mathematica Tutorial)

The standard way in which Mathematica works is to take any expression you give as input, evaluate the expression completely, and then return the result. When you are trying ...

Principal Axis Method (Mathematica Tutorial)

"Gauss–Newton" and "conjugate gradient" methods use derivatives. When Mathematica cannot compute symbolic derivatives, finite differences will be used. Computing derivatives ...

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 ...

Result Sets (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

When many rows of data are returned from a database query, a significant amount of memory may be required to hold the result. If all of the data does not need to be available ...

Creating Tables with Raw SQL (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

The raw SQL command CREATE TABLE creates tables in a database. An alternative is to use the Mathematica command SQLCreateTable, described in "Creating Tables". If you find ...

Deleting Data with Raw SQL (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

The raw SQL command DELETE deletes data from a database. An alternative is to use the Mathematica command SQLDelete, described in "Deleting Data". If you find that the ...