RE: Arrays

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I would bet that any quick-running SQL
statement can be made to run just as fast or even faster using RPG.
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I would disagree with you there. Set at a time operations are going to run 
faster. SQL is doing everything at the machine level. RPG has to be slower. It 
has to pull every record up through all the logical buffers. Even using READ 
instead of READE it has to be slower. SQL can do all kinds of optimizations at 
the machine level and IBM has gotten a lot better at optimizing queries. 
Anytime I am doing any kind of set operations (Sum, group by, update a lot of 
records, etc), I will always use SQL. 

The hassle with SQL is not having free-form SQL and the ugly way SQL is 
implemented in RPG. Only thing that keeps me from using it for everything.