Re: SQL Vs. RPG Opinions

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

You're welcome.  And if you need some tricky logic that's easier for you 
to do in RPG, then use a UDF or a stored procedure.

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Thanks to all...

- Michael

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:26:25 -0500, rob@xxxxxxxxx said:
> Depends on who you ask  :-)
> 
> If you can really get your ducks in a row you might even be able to play 

> with stuff like CONNECT TO, etc and update the remote files directly and 

> bypass the comma delimited.
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> I have a need to populate many files from an established iSeries
> database. I would normally write some RPG/IV code to get the data I need
> and write to the files - standard stuff. However, these files are going
> to mimic a relational structure on a different system - after I create
> the files, I'll convert them to comma delimited format and send them to
> the target system where they'll be used as input for tables.
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> So, I'm really creating tables on my iSeries and sending them to the
> other system. Should I use SQL to do this? I've used SQL to create the
> tables and I could develop the SQL to populate the tables, but I'm
> wondering if it even makes sense to do this. 
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