RE: SQL View

David,

is it a management decision not to allow views, or is there a technical reason behind it?

AFAIK, a view is a way to only show selected fields from a file/table, or a simple way to access data that is in different files/tables, or a way to get calculated fields easily, without having to re-type the calculations in SQL or your program.

Of course, I've been wrong before ;-)

HTH,


Peter Colpaert
Software Engineer, Consumer Luminaires

Industrieterrein Satenrozen 11, 2550 Kontich, Belgium
Tel. +32/ 3 450 74 09, Fax +32/ 3 450 74 33, Internal 1317
peter.colpaert@xxxxxxxxxxx, www.philips.com

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David FOXWELL
Sent: dinsdag 4 november 2008 9:35
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: SQL View

Hi,

Unfortunately we are not ready to have views on our system. In a test,
I created a view on 3 PF, called it, for example, articles, and then in
my program was able to run "Select info from articles".

As I cannot keep the view, my final select statement will have to be a
lot more complex.

I'd like to know, does a view do anything more than simplify an
otherwise complex request? Would it be reasonable in my case to create
the view at the start of my program and then drop it at the end?

Thanks
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