You might want to ask yourself why you would need such functionality in the first place. In a properly normalized database design you will not have duplicitive data in multiple tables.
Better get your developers up to speed with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization
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From: Stone, Joel [mailto:Joel.Stone@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 10:11 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: DDS field reference equivalent in SQL
An important part of making field length changes easier on Iseries is to use a field reference file to inherit attributes from other fields & files.
Is there an equivalent in SQL?
Thanks
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