[stackoverflow] [progress Openedge Abl] Creating A Buffer With The Same Name As The...

[pmartin]

I've run across this code in a number of places:

DEFINE BUFFER Customer FOR Customer.


I have two questions:

1. 
   What is the purpose of this? Why is it beneficial to create a buffer with the same name as the table?
   
   
2. 
   When writing code to access this table/buffer, how does Progress know whether to access the DB directly or through the buffer?
   

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