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Re: Storing Numeric Values in the Database

On 9/6/2011 4:40 PM, Scott Klement wrote:
Perhaps, but every language out there uses SQL for database access. C, VB, Java, C#, PHP, you name it... and embedded SQL is easier to code and debug (not to mention more efficient) than using an API-based approach like ODBC/CLI or JDBC. So I think embedded SQL compares favorably to the alternative languages.

Just a quibble - very few languages actually use SQL, they typically use some variant of ODBC, and depending on the API that can get quite cumbersome. In fact, I would submit that RPG and COBOL with embedded SQL come closest to using SQL as a native language, albeit through the use of a pre-processor. EGL comes very close as well; you simply say "get" on a record with SQL attributes and the generator does the rest for you. You can override the generated SQL, but if your database is set up correctly, EGL just uses it.

Joe

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