Mathematica stores preference settings and initialization data in two directories, $BaseDirectory and $UserBaseDirectory. Within each of these directories are several ...

Mathematica by default interprets any sequence of letters or letter-like forms as the name of a symbol. All these are treated by Mathematica as symbols. Symbols with built-in ...

Many aspects of the Mathematica front end such as the styles of cells, the appearance of notebooks, or the parameters used in typesetting are controlled by options. For ...

SQLDelete[conn, table] deletes the data in a table in an SQL connection.SQLDelete[conn, table, cond] deletes data that matches cond.

SQLDropTable[conn, table] drops a table in an SQL connection.

DatabaseLink contains a number of example databases (many use HSQLDB). These allow you to try examples in the documentation and learn the details of working with databases in ...

JavaShow[window] causes the specified Java window to be brought to the foreground, so that it appears in front of notebook windows.

ReturnAsJavaObject[expr] causes a Java method call or field access during the evaluation of expr to return its result as an object reference (a JavaObject expression), not a ...

This User Guide is divided into two parts, reflecting the traditional distinction between the two ways of using Mathematica with external programs. The first use is to extend ...

$LibraryError returns the system-dependent error message from loading a library, or None if there was no error.