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

<< Jhon Carr wrote  >>
>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.
  
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While it is generally true that SQL don't know da difference 'tween a
"CREATE TABLE" objects and a "CRTPF" object, there are some
differences, at least at the system level.  One is that SQL tables can
not have more than one member, even though SQL can access
multiple member "CRTPF" files using OVDBF.  So somewhere down in
the bowels of the system, there is (are?) a difference(s).

Scott Cornell
Mercy Information Systems
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