RE: SQL row processing order for UDF

Besides Rob's excellent suggestion, I seem to remember that SEQUEL had
a CLI
interface. Have you checked that?

Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert ? eServer i5 iSeries


On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Dennis Lovelady
<iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Thanks to all who responded. Rob's idea seems to fit the bill best

in this

case.

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Create a view with that statement. Access the view with SEQUEL?


Rob Berendt

Dennis
I didn't, but that's a very good idea.

However, it's not a complete solution since some uses of this,

against

my
fervent complaints, will be implemented using the SEQUEL product,

which

has
no support for the WITH statement (among many other things).

Don't

get
me
started.

Any response to the "is it expected behavior" part?

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did you try to use an CTE?

With x as (Select TRNADAT, Amount
From MyTable
Where ...
Order By TRNDAT)
Select x.* MTD(Amount)

From x

;

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Lovelady

Gesendet: Tuesday, 15. June 2010 15:30
An: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Betreff: SQL row processing order for UDF

I created a UDF like a more complex version of this:

CREATE FUNCTION MTD(date, decimal(11,2)

RETURNS DECIMAL(13,2)

RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT

.

The select would like like:

SELECT TRNDATE, AMOUNT, MTD(AMOUNT)

ORDER BY TRNDATE



And ideally the result would be a running total of month-to-date

values.

Pretty slick.



What I found, though, leads me to believe that the MTD function

is

being
called before the ORDER BY, and that's giving me wildly incorrect
results,
even when the source table is already in that sequence. When the
source
table is already in the correct sequence and I drop the ORDER BY,

I

*seem*to* get the results that I want, but I doubt there's any
guarantee of
that; besides, that's a requirement that'll be hard to meet. So

my

two-part
question is: Is this expected behavior? Is there a way around

this?

Dennis E. Lovelady
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