Help vs Tutorials (was SQL tools)

["SamL" <lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vern Hamberg" <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "CODE/400 Discussion & Support" <code400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: SQL tools


> I just started digging - looked in the Help Perspective under
WDSC. One of
> the topics is "Database Tools". Apparently there is a Data
perspective -
> I'd first tried opening a new one of those and did not get very
far - am
> looking at the help next.
>
> Where does it say we have to rtfm ("f" = "fine") anyway?   <g>
>
> Vern

I'm still trying to find time to find my way around the help
system.  I've never had much success with online help systems in
WDSC & its predecessors (and other products from othe vendors.)
They are great to confirm something you already know something
about, but to teach concepts there are useless, at least for me.
You search for xxx and you get a hit that tells you xxx is invoked
from the yyy dialog, but then you have to work back to find where
the yyy dialog is invoked, which comes from zzz, repeat until you
find something you recognize.

I need a tutorial, preferably one I can easily print.  (I actually
do read manuals.  Or I used to before they went out of fashion...)
Phil C., or someone pointed to a tutorial on the RPG/Cobal features
which I downloaded and will print shortly.  But I'm pretty sure it
won't cover the SQL Tools though.  Maybe I'll get to go to Fall
Common and get some classes.

Sam