The table below shows which statements are used in each example. For example, the BEGIN and CLOSE statements are used in every example; the COMMIT WORK statement is used in Examples 2 and 3.
The correspondingly numbered Ada, COBOL, FORTRAN and PL/I examples are equivalent.
| Example | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| BEGIN | x | x | x |
| CLOSE | x | x | x |
| COMMIT WORK | x | x | |
| CONNECT | x | ||
| DBCLOSE | x | x | x |
| DELETE | x | ||
| FETCH | x | x | x |
| FIND | x | x | |
| HISTOGRAM | x | ||
| OPEN | x | x | x |
| READ LOGICAL | x | x | |
| UPDATE | x | x |