Re: Embedded SQL

> From: oertlim@s054.aone.net.au (Matthias Oertli)
>  
>  Hi,
>  To embed SQL into RPG, is the SQL lic pgm required?
>  Is there any place that has example code (RPGIII & IV)?
>  Thanks,
>  Matthias

When we converted BPCS/36 to BPCS 405 CD with help from consultants Crowe 
Chizek http://www.crowechizek.com/ they use embedded SQL quite heavily in the 
RPG programs they modified for us & offered a class in this which I did not 
get a chance to attend, but I did get one of the hand-outs from their class - 
at the time SQL was a brand new programming language for me & later I got to 
go to the IBM class in SQL & UDB/400 which included about 1/2 day on SQL 
embedded in RPG & Cobol ... basically same examples were given in both RPG & 
Cobol ... that class also into triggers & very heavy DB rules - lot of 
different SQL topics to be covered in very few days.  IBM has now expanded 
their SQL education into 2 classes

S6137 sounds like it is thorough grounding in SQL other than this scenario 
... prerequisite for this class includes S6145
S6138 is heavy into embedded SQL in which RPG IV is used
Check out IBM course descriptions & schedules via links from 
http://www.training.ibm.com/ibmedu/spotlight/as400.html

I have found some useful threads in the AS/400 network forum on SQL & Data 
Base Programming & Query/400
http://www.as400network.com/Forums/Main.cfm?CFApp=59

So far the only embedded SQL that I have done is patterned after how Crowe 
Chizek did it ... using SQL instead of RPG CHAIN READ etc. to get at 
particular combinations of data.  If you want to read selected fields from 
several different files, SQL seems to be a more powerful way than traditional 
RPG & the READ mechanism of returning to the same command to get the next 
combination available works just as well as READ does, except READ just reads 
one record of one file & it is reading all fields of that file, while 
embedded SQL is picking & choosing individual fields from a whole bunch of 
files in one access.

I am not too keen on this feature, because of discomfort with making 
modifications, but you can read in a bunch of fields in a mathematical 
equation so that this field plus that field result divided by contents of 
third field (I prefer to test for zero in RPG code lines before any division) 
then multiplied by some faction end result is delivered to the RPG program.

Another area of hassle is performance statistics ... what do they all MEAN 
... I have one program that has hundreds of embedded SQL chunks & each one 
generates a bunch of lines of IBM analysis that is still pretty much Greek to 
me.  

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor
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