Interfacing with applications programmatically

I'm coming from heavy Windows programming, so I'm not sure the validity of my question...
In windows it is possible to write a program that allows you to interact with other applications. for example, I can write a program that instantiates MS Word, opens a document, sets some text, applies a template, etc... anything that Word could do, but from a program outside word.
Is it possible to do the same in the OS X environment? I'm just learning my ABCs on Objective-C and I've seen how you can turn your application "AppleScrip-table" (so then an AppleScript script can interact with it) so I pressume that it is possible. The question is how do I go about finding information on what's possible to do on each application?
For example, if I want to write a program that interacts with Apple Aperture, how would I go to find out what API is exposed by Aperture that I could invoke from an external Objective-C program (or AppleScript)?
...I hope I didn't confuse you guys with all this. Any suggestions/hints will be greatly appreciated.
Warm Regards,
Julian

For example, if I want to write a program that
interacts with Apple Aperture, how would I go to find
out what API is exposed by Aperture that I could
invoke from an external Objective-C program (or
AppleScript)?
The easiest way to see the AppleScript objects/commands that particular applications make available is to use "File -> Open Dictionary..." in Script Editor or Xcode. This allows you to select from a list of scriptable applications and examine their scripting dictionaries.
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I considered parameterisation of views, but I dont believe views support parameters, I also considered stored procedures, but I dont believe that stored procedures allow result sets to be used as pseudo tables.
Correct on the first point, though there is such a thing as a TVF which is similar in effect. Before you go down that path, let's address the second statement. I don't understand that last bit about "used as pseudo tables" but that sounds more
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DTA has its limitations. What it doesn't do is evaluate the "model" - which is where you might have more significant issues. Tuning your queries and indexing your tables will only go so far to compensate for a poorly designed schema (not that
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fall apart.  If you have control over this schema, then I suggest you consider changing it. Store all the facts about a single entity in a single row.  Given the frequency that I see this pattern, I'll guess that you
cannot. So let's move on.
30 thousand rows is tiny, so your current volume is negligible. You still need to optimize your tables based on usage, so you need to address that first. How is the data populated currently? Is it done once as a batch?  Is it
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have you defined? Do all tables have a clustered index or are some (most?) of them heaps?   OTOH, I'm going to guess that the database is at most a minimal issue now and that most of your concerns are better addressed at the user interface
and how it accesses your database. Perhaps now is a good time to step back and reconsider your approach to providing information to the users. Perhaps there is a better solution - but that requires an understanding of your users, the skillset of
everyone involved, what you have to work with, etc. Maybe just some advanced excel training? I can't really say and it might be a better question for a different forum.
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