Re: Big reason to avoid SYSDUMMY1 -- MIDRANGE-L

"Values" are great !!

I use it to pivot turn column into row and construct a virtual table on the
fly. They can be used with lateral joins and in CTE:

Here an example where I do a lateral join where i pivot turns a repeating
set into rows:

with rater (vkkunr , maaned , rate , forfald) as (
select vkkunr, b.*
from vkmstp

*join lateral ( values (01, vkrt1, vkfd1) , (02, vkrt2, vkfd2), (03,
vkrt3, vkfd3) , (04, vkrt4, vkfd4), (05, vkrt5, vkfd5) , (06,
vkrt6, vkfd6), (07, vkrt7, vkfd7) , (08, vkrt8, vkfd8), (09,
vkrt9, vkfd9) , (10, vkrt10, vkfd10), (11, vkrt11, vkfd11) , (12, vkrt12,
vkfd12) ) b on 1=1*
)
Select vkkunr, rate, maaned,
case
when maaned < month(current date)
then date( current date - dayofyear(current date) days + 1 year +
maaned month + forfald days)
else date( current date - dayofyear(current date) days + 0 year +
maaned month + forfald days)
end forfdat
from rater

And a CTE where my ranking is a virtual table

-- List prefered column translation
with myrank ( points , lang , sys) as ( values
(100, 2 , 1406),
(90 , 2 , 1402),
(80 , 2 , 1401),
(70 , 2 , 1400),
(60 , 0 , 1406),
(50 , 0 , 1402),
(40 , 0 , 1401),
(30 , 0 , 1400)
)
Select column_name, column_heading , snake_case (text) suggested_name ,
b.*
from syscolumns a
left join lateral (
Select points , b.*
from text b
left join myrank
on language = lang
and system = sys
where textname = column_name
order by ifnull(points , 0) desc
limit 1
) b on 1=1

On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 8:20 PM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't understand how it's a lousy implementation.
VALUES knows there is not inherently any database operation. Therefore
there are no opens, closes, fetches, etc. While "select... from
sysibm.sysdummy1" is a file just like every other file on the system. Just
a common dummy they came up with.

Rob Berendt
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<rob>
Just read this blog on why you should use the VALUES statement instead of
SYSDUMMY1.
Basically this
VALUES CURRENT TIMESTAMP INTO :hv1
Will blow the doors off of
SELECT CURRENT TIMESTAMP INTO :hv1 FROM sysibm.sysdummy1
</rob>

... seems to be a lousy implementation!

D*B

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