RE: SQL VS QUERY

Evan,
        We can go back and for on this issue.  The answer to the original
question is "depends".  It depends on how the need can be fulfilled.  I like
SQL for querying and QUERY/400 for reporting.  I have used both and both are
used in a product situation.  I do give it to end-users but only to a very
select few.

Thank you,
Matt Tyler
Mattt@wincofoods.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Harris [mailto:spanner@ihug.co.nz]
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 13:32
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: SQL VS QUERY

Hi Matt

you wrote

<SNIP>
>         It has been posted on this list about a query eating up a system.
>True, basic users cannot kill data using QUERY/400, but there is by default
>nothing to prevent them from chewing up all the remaining resources with a
>bad selection condition set.
</SNIP>

this is one of those statements I see from time to time that I like to
challenge :)

If someone wrote a query that outputs to a file with a production file name
and replace member *yes specified they could certainly "kill" data.

Of course an adequate security scheme would prevent this but I'd hazard a
guess that this might be a vulnerability on just a few systems

regards
Evan Harris


>You still need SQL to create views in order to give ad-hoc report users
>better reporting data in QUERY/400.  You should not expect a user outside
of
>IT to know which tables to join and how to join them.
>
>Plus, since it comes with in the development package for the 400 why not
use
>it.
>
>IMO, QUERY/400 is not a tool to give to end-users without putting
>restrictions on them via system parameters and objects.
>
>Thank you,
>Matt Tyler

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