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At 10:28 AM 12/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Dan, Eric
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>Pragmatically(not phisophically) , I don't think User Defined Types will
>be embraced or implemented as widely as the Reference File concept. Sure
>you can define Canadian Dollars and US Dollars as UDT's, and each can have
>their own rules of behavior, but I'd be willing to bet that most shops
>will find them too narrow and restrictive to be used widely.
Agreed.
>I don't know why the DB guys won't just admit that the designers of the
>Sys/38 had a great idea back in 1978+/- with the Reference(with very
>liberal built in type casting).
Because they are cheap and stupid. I can't fault them on being
cheap. Business is business, but I can fault them on stupidity. DDS is
significantly more user productive for DB design than SQL, and DDS would be
relatively inexpensive to enhance.
Al
>John Carr
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>Eric,
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>How about an example? For an SQL newbie...
>
>Dan Bale
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>Hello Al,
>
>Thursday, December 07, 2000, 1:57:28 PM, you wrote:
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> > At 03:09 PM 12/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
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> > 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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