Re: Using a Reference file in a SQL Table

You could also go down the road of creating types for relevant data you
would like a reference to:

If you have your customer number always as a decimal (10) then define a
type for it you could use

create type qgpl.customer_number as decimal(10);

create table customer (
id int generated always as identity primary key,
number qgpl.customer_number,
name varchar(256)
);

And you could easy unwrap your reference files into atomic types ( i could
write you a SQL procedure that does it - if you like me to)

.. only downside is edit codes and edit words .. :(





On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 8:11 PM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Basically it's something like
CREATE NEWTABLE AS (
SELECT
Column1,
Column2,
Column3
FROM FREFTable)
With no data;

Your choices include:
Add the library to the library list.
SET CURRENT SCHEMA and hope the fref and new table belong in the same
schema.
Hardcode


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Does anyone know how to use a Reference file when creating a SQL Table.
The reference file is not in the current library list. We don't want to
hard code the library.


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