Most of the "magic" of database operation in BEE are provided in the "action" mode (when the "action" parameter is specified without the "query" parameter.)

There are eleven Database Actions.  Among them are four data access (select, update, insert and delete), five VirtualBase operations (create, load, unload, showcreatetable and showinsertinto) and two supplementary (push and nextseq).  You can specify any one of these in the "action" parameter of the "database" command.