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MapInfo Professional attempts to open the table as specified for Browser, Current Mapper, and New
Mapper. If it cannot, it will open the table according to the following rules:
• If Current Mapper is selected, and there is no Map window displayed, MapInfo Professional will
attempt to open the table in a new Map window.
• If Current Mapper or New Mapper is selected and the data is not mappable, MapInfo Professional
will try to open the table in a Browser window.
• If the table cannot be mapped or browsed, MapInfo Professional will open the table using the No View
option (no data is displayed).
For more information, see Renaming a Table and Deleting a Table in the Help System.
Opening Data in Remote Tables
MapInfo Professional also enables you to access remote database data through its ODBC connectivity
support and the Oracle Spatial Object support. The MapInfo Professional ODBC connectivity support
supplies many ODBC drivers that you can easily install.
Oracle spatial databases enable you to store spatial objects with your conventional data in the same
database. This enables you to read and write geographies in Oracle Spatial without the need for a
middleware product such as MapInfo Professional's SpatialWare, or SDE. You also gain better
performance through the Oracle Call Interface (OCI). In addition, Oracle applications can use this same
spatial or non-spatial data through other interfaces (ODBC, OCI, JDBC, PL/SQL, HTTP, IIOP, etc.) or
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