RE: SQL - File staying locked.

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

I thought of that David, but if I am doing a one record read, then why use 
a cursor?  For example if I have a file ITEMMASTER with a primary key 
constraint on ITEMNUM why would I use a cursor to do the following?

select price into :listprice from itemmaster
where itemnumber=:itemnum

I can just see Pluta, "I wouldn't use a cursor either, I'd use a 
traditional rpg chain."   :-)

But I guess it's like, and not like, using the rpg cycle to open/close 
your files.  If I use a cursor then it's an explicit open/close.  If I 
don't I then it's an implicit open/close.  The only difference between it 
and the cycle is that the implicit open is upon the execution of the 
select into versus the start of the program.  And the implicit close 
(depending on CLOSQLCSR) is at the end of the activation group versus the 
end of the program.

I've kind of danced around activation groups.  But this is where you 
really have to know your beans is activation groups and SQL.

Rob Berendt
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