Linking local & remote files in QMQRY

Hi all

I think the answer is probably no, but here goes. STRQMQRY gives you the
option of which database to connect to, so you can run the SQL over data
on a remote machine, with any *outfile data directed to the local
database. Now I'm wondering if it's possible to join a local file with a
remote one, in order to get remote data onto the local machine that
matches local data. Eg

SELECT * FROM FILEA T1 WHERE EXISTS (SELECT * FROM FILEB T2 WHERE
T1.FIELDA = T2.FIELDA)

where FILEA is on the remote box, and FILEB is local. The aim is to make
my data extraction tool a bit more useful. Currently the majority of our
production files are mirrored to our dev box, so it's easy to grab
subsets of data, but there are a few that aren't. Doing a SAVRSTOBJ is
okay to get a local copy, but when I only want a fraction of the records
it seems a bit overkill. It also might make it more useful to others
that don't have the luxury of consistent local data.

A slightly related question: is the above SELECT statement (assuming all
done locally) an efficient way to get the matching records. I've used
this syntax all the time I've been using SQL, but now seeing lots of
references to inner joins, outer joins, exception joins, etc, I'm
beginning to wonder.

Regards, Martin
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