[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]
The Guide database stores Program Guide information about future shows. You can query this database for information about an episode.
For example, when gathering data about an episode for a show reminder, your application might query the Guide database for episode records with a specific title and start date. Once you find a matching record in the database, you can fill in the rest of the episode information for the reminder, such as channel, network, and ending time, from the record's fields.
To enable applications to retrieve or set episode and other records and fields in the Guide database, Broadcast Architecture provides the Guide data objects. These objects wrap the Data Access Objects (DAO) code necessary to access the Guide database's records and fields. Specifically, you can use the CEpisodeTRecordset object to select and create episode records in the Guide database. The CEpisodeTRecordset contains a collection of CEpisodeT objects, each of which wraps the field information about an individual episode record.
For more information, see the following topics:
To locate information on DAO, see Further General Information.