Re: Using SQL as opposed to OPNQRYF

Hi Grizzly,

> Is there much of a performance difference between SQL and OPNQRYF?

I heavily investigated the best performing routine for a person search
program back in 1998. The database held about 7 million persons and it
was pretty much the same whether i opened it with SQL or with OPNQRYF.
The program had to give back 50 persons in maximum.

There were slight advantages with OPNQRYF, though, and so i coded it
with OPNQRYF.

Maybe it's better with SQL today, but a long time these two were just
two doors into the same house.

But the most important part was that i ended up creating 17 logical
files with different keys that i never used in the application, but
these make the OPNQRYF (or SQL) fly. Instead of an average 8 minutes
for a search, making the client/server application with a time-out of
5 minutes unusable, the search takes about an average 0.7 seconds. The
debug mode told me what it wanted for every different search i made.

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