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  3. June 2005

RE: Can I SQL-query data from 2 servers at the same time?

Rob,

Makes me wonder....can you create an alias for a DDM file?  Then use the alias 
in SQL?

Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

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> Subject: RE: Can I SQL-query data from 2 servers at the same time?
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> 
> No it won't.  Even though the DDM file is local SQL can still 
> smell that 
> it is a DDM file and won't like it.  However if you use the 
> SQL command to 
> CREATE ALIAS because you don't like to do an OVRDBF because 
> some silly 
> fool likes multiple member files; the result of the CREATE 
> ALIAS is a DDM 
> file.  And SQL will use this DDM file happily.  Go figure.

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