Re[2]: SQL-defined files/tables

Hello Al,

Thursday, December 07, 2000, 1:57:28 PM, you wrote:

> At 03:09 PM 12/7/00 -0500, you wrote:

> IBM deems DDS to be proprietary, and SQL to be an industry standard.  In 
> this respect, they are correct.

> However, the field reference capability in DDS is not available in 
> SQL.  You can be significantly more productive in DDS than in SQL for 
> database file definition.  In my opinion, IBM is being cheap and stupid not 
> extending these capabilities to DDS.

Al,

You can get the same capability by doing a Create Distinct Type. I
think it is even better because in your script you would say a field
is a Type of AccountNumber if you had created such a type.

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Eric N. Wilson
President
Doulos Software and Computer Services


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