Re: IDDU, S36 & AS/400 SQL & RPG

[John Carr <74711.77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RE:     Re: IDDU, S36 & AS/400 SQL & RPG

>Prince Etrigan wrote:
>> What I've been doing is (re)describing the data files in my RPG programs,
>> and wrapping the RPG in a CL program that does an OVRDBF command.  Also, I'm
>> using Query/400 a lot, and would like to see if SQL would have any
>> performance benefits, but SQL won't access the files.
>>
>>


Someone said
>To use the files in SQL I believe you have to create an SQL table, instead of a
>CRTPF or CRTLF.

I said;
Uh ... wrong.    Thats the nice thing on the AS/400 a *FILE is a *FILE 
as opposed to the PC where a file is a .EXE a .XLS a .DOC a .DLL a .ETC
and it's up to the application to open it up and say WHAT IS THIS JUNK
or whatever runtime message each package gives you(like.. Sorry; this 
is not a Powerpoint Presentation).

Anyway,  SQL sees a PF created from the CRTPF command exactly like it see
a table created using the CREATE TABLE and vice versa, etc, and so on.

IFAIK
JC


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