RE: SQL Vs. RPG Opinions

["Elvis Budimlic" <ebudimlic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In that case you will need a program to interrogate error conditions and
report any potential failures to the operations staff.  
Performance also may be an issue and in that case you might need to build
some indexes for embedded SQL.  This should be a factor in deciding SQL vs
RPG.

In my view, most important thing is the ease of interrogating error
conditions and ability to inform the operator successfully, consistently and
with actionable information (i.e. network connection failed - strtcp, or
file is in use - end this job that is holding the lock etc.).

Just the fact that you need to write a controller type program may drive you
to do it all programmatically.

Elvis

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 Subject: RE: SQL Vs. RPG Opinions

It will be something that will execute on a nightly basis. I'll be
refreshing the target database every night. Also, the logic is a bit
tricky.