Re: Question about variable length fields -- MIDRANGE-L

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Isn't QMQRY also guaranteed to be available? As this is a one-time shot, why not write a simple QMQRY?

Or use the QShell db2?

Or use RUNSQLSTM?

Or use iNav?

You hardly need the SQL developer's kit for a one-time shot SQL statement.

James H. H. Lampert wrote:

Buck wrote:

No disagreement there but I think it profitable to note that writing a
command line utility to execute SQL statements like this one have been
in the public domain for quite a while. There's one in the FAQ, for
example.

Yes, and since our mostly-RLA-based Wintouch product uses an ever-increasing amount of SQL, with only the CLI guaranteed to be available, it's had a "CLI front-end" of its own ever since I first learned that two different programs could end up fighting over access to the CLI.

And isn't it wonderful that so many of the problems in our field have multiple correct solutions? (And I say this without even so much as a vague hint of sarcasm.)

Something else to be thankful for. Along with this List.

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JHHL

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