RE: Not using SQL. What am I missing?

John,
        My first thought would be of list screens.  You can make them page
at a time and load from a multiple row set of data.  With that SAME query
you can let users re-order and filter the data.  No extra logical files
required in the program.

Thank you,
Matt Tyler
WinCo Foods, Inc
mattt@wincofoods.com

-----Original Message-----
From: John Furniss [mailto:jfurniss@alliedmachine.com]
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 13:16
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Not using SQL. What am I missing?

List,
    I posted a question to you not long ago about the benefits of Java
(thanks for the responses, BTW). Now the question of SQL has come up.
    As I stated before, we are coding exclusively in RPG (Myself in
RPGILE, our other programmer mostly RPG/400) and have never used SQL.
What are we missing out on? Are there APIs only available to SQL? Great
data manipulation? Is it worth learning and how do we go about it?
    Please pardon the simplistic question, but I searched the archives
and found nothing.
    Thanks much,

--
John Furniss
Applications Programmer
Allied Machine & Engineering Corp.
mailto:jfurniss@alliedmachine.com
Phone (330) 343-4283 ext. 8371


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