RE: PF or table?

In general,

Yes you should prefer DDL over DDS for performance, functionality, flexibility, and compatibility.

Here's some info regarding performance.
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/resources/systems_i_software_db2_pdf_Performance_DDS_SQL.pdf

HTH,


Charles Wilt
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David FOXWELL
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 6:17 AM
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Subject: PF or table?

Hi,

I'd created a table for testing an SQL statement by a file transfer from
EXCEL. As I was going to make this table permanent, I started writing some
DDS.
As the table will be used only by SQL, would there be a performance loss
if I used DDS? We don't have any standard yet for storing DDL but I am
putting the DDL at least temporarily into a QSQLSRC file to be used by
RUNSQLSTM.

Thanks
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