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>But it just so happens that I rarely have to add
>the order total field from 800,000 records.

Fair enough (unless you have _really_ big orders. But how about just 8
rows per order, and 15 orders on the screen? List 15 orders in a
subfile, and for each total the 8 rows. Bet SQL still wins.

>It's good to at least hear you say that SQL is not good for some
things.

SQL isn't good for a lot of things. On many platforms it's our only
choice, on the iSeries we have others. Nothing is perfect.

>Later on in our self-help program

<VBG>

>you'll learn how to say Java is not good for all things

I'm a MS guy, I already say that <G>

>and eventually, you'll even learn to say that Windows is not good for
everything. 

Um, it's not??? <G>

-Walden

PS. Send the big cupie doll to Toys for Tots. <G>


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President & CEO
Tech Software
(516) 627-3800 x11
WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.TechSoftInc.com 

Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
(Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
 


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