RE: New DB Performance Boost - For SQL Only!

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:55 PM 07/03/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Richard,
>
>At 7/3/00 08:04 AM -0600, you wrote:
>>Well, it says that they won't ...
>>
>>"The larger page size only be used on indexes created over SQL tables and
>>SQL-created indexes."
>
>  Is there a technical reason for this to be so or is it just IBM's way of 
> trying to push us toward SQL?

I fairness to IBM, they have two reasons:

1.      They feel that SQL is more universal than DDS, which it is.  This 
causes there to be one less barrier for others to learn the platform.

2.      They want to minimize the expense of maintaining two 
interfaces.  Expense is more important to IBM today than benefit to the 
customer, because Lou manages the company to stock price.

What those DODO heads miss is that DDS is significantly more programmer 
productive than SQL for database definition.  They miss this because they 
don't use the AS/400 to run their business.

Al




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