[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Usage of BIND, REFERENCE-ONLY and BY-REFERENCE with ProDataSets & temp-tables

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[quote user="Peter Judge"] I'm also getting that BIND helps manage/pass a single copy of a temp-table's data. [/quote] Strictly speaking - BIND and BY-REFERENCE don't pass anything but a TT reference. BIND permanently associates the target instance's TT references with the source's TT reference. BY-REFERENCE associates the target instance's TT references with the source's TT reference for the duration of the call. On the other hand, a straight INPUT TABLE tt_Table parameter does a call-by-value which creates a duplicate copy of TT data.

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