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  3. January 2010

Re: Tables and PFs

Jerry Adams wrote:
Agreed. It's just semantics. Table and file are interchangeable just as row and record are. My boss, who does a heck of a lot more SQL on PC apps than I do on IBM i apps, and I often talk about the systems and he will say, "Row," and I will says, "Record." Neither of us have a problem understanding the other.
In formal documentation I try to use the term "table," but will frequently in conversation use "file." Either way, it's a database object.

Likewise, some people do a NETSTAT, while others (myself included) do a WRKTCPSTS.

Table, file, NETSTAT, WRKTCPSTS, let's call the whole thing off.

(apologies to George and Ira Gershwin)

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JHHL

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