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I know what you mean about the reference manual - but it is actually pretty 
good. I've read Celko's book - fascinating and useful eventually, I think. It 
is not applied to any particular flavor of SQL, and some of what he suggests 
might not work the same way on the iSeries.

Maybe take a look at www.iseries.ibm.com/db2 and rummage around. Then, in the 
V5R4 version of Infocenter, under Database, is a "Database information finder" 
that is quite neat, as it is organized in several ways - by tasks, by topics, 
by examples, etc. The above db2 link probably has a link to the infocenter 
stuff.

Then you can always google for things like "sql tutorial" and get a lot of good 
stuff from basic to more advanced. One nice site is www.w3schools.com that has 
stuff on all kinds of topics, from SQL to HTML to Javascript to XML, all in 
manageable chunks.

Enjoy!! and welcome to the black-box world of SQL!
Vern
-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx> 

On 6/19/06, Vernon Hamberg wrote: 

LOL Dan - you've definitely come over to the dark side! 


I can still hear James Earl Jones speaking the line "Do not underestimate 
the power of the force." I look at SQL these days in the same "light" that 
I remember seeing OPNQRYF 15 years ago. "Awesome! You can do *that*?!?!?" 
So much to soak in. (Since I bring it up, I wonder if anyone uses OPNQRYF 
in new development anymore?) 

I will give your examples a run-through when I get a chance. (Thanks!) 

I recommend the SQL Reference on IBM's site for more on this. 


Maybe it's just me, but I find the SQL Reference useful only when you *know* 
what you're looking for. Maybe it's just the nature of the beast, 2000 ways 
to skin a cat and all that, but in the case of the questions "Can I do 
this?" or "How do I do that?", the SQL Reference more often then not leads 
me on a wild goose chase. A colleague here has "Joe Celko's SQL for 
Smarties" that I've been meaning to have a look at, but it's also labeled 
"Advanced SQL Programming", so I don't know. 

- Dan 
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