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  3. July 2008

Re: Modernization and multi-member files

Simon Coulter wrote:

There is nothing wrong with multi-member files as a solution to a problem. Not very relational but so what? That's not the only way to design a database. Multiple members can be handled quite well using OVRDBF and USROPN. Even SQL copes with them via OVRDBF or CREATE ALIAS, and multiple members are how Rochester chose to implement partitioned data files so they can't be all bad.

Just out of morbid curiosity (it doesn't impact anything I'm currently doing, and I don't really have time to research it) what happens if you try and create logical and/or join-logical files based on multi-member physicals?


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