Re: Query/400 to RPG program

["James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don,

Because querys are a resource hog by nature.

I've worked with trade associations where the 80/20 rule of their process is 
batch
work against their subscriber list.  Querys work great in this situation.

If the 80/20 rule is real time interactive work, querys suck resources like a
Hoover! <g>

We use querys to prototype requests, then take that to a -real- programming
language if it is used on a daily basis.

In the good, fast, cheap, triangle analysis, querys win in the development end 
of
the spectrum, but they are losers in the usage.
By consuming resources and delaying other production they have a usage cost 
that,
over time, outweighs their development gains.

It's not a right or wrong issue as to the use of querys, but a situational one,
IMO.

J. Kilgore



Searsdon@AOL.COM wrote:

> Why would you want to get rid of the querys?

<<snip>>

> Why spend a couple of hours or more writing a
> RPG report when in 15 minutes you can handle the most typical report requests?
>

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