These two commands are complementary. SAVEWORK lets you update the databases to incorporate any changes you have made during your current PARAGON session (since your last SAVEWORK). GETWORK lets you refresh your view of all READ or Multiwrite databases to pick up any changes that others may have made since you first opened them.

Both commands can be restricted to specific databases within the current MDB by following them with a list of numbers. These numbers represent specific databases in the order they appear in the output of the STATUS command, which may be given in MONITOR or in the MDB mode of any GUI module. If no database numbers are given, then the commands apply to the whole MDB.

It is good practice to use SAVEWORK frequently, to make sure maximum data security. However, it should only be necessary to use GETWORK when there are specific changes that you wish to pick up (in which case it is likely that you will know which databases you will actually want to refresh). GETWORK slows subsequent database access because the information has to be re-read from disk, and should be avoided unless you really need to use it.