RE: What would you do without RPG?

I can't speak for set ups using the "i" as a pure DB server, but I would have thought that in such environments there would indeed be a group of DBA's sweating profusely over the fact some young whippersnapper programmer has brought production to its knees by doing a 30 file join using a never before >>used sequence with a selection criteria that omits half the records evenly interspersed in the master stock file who when asked "why?" responds with the answer "well it worked really quickly when I tested it with my local sql set up" ;-)

The answer to this goes back to Buck's response. RLA means I don't write a 30 file join. I read or chain in to each file as needed. And how would test against a local sql setup? I've never seen programmer working against db2 on their PC. I also have not worked at many different companies. Where I worked there was usually a test partition, system, library list. That you run tests against.

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