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Cassidy, Alan wrote:
7. RE: Chalk one up for "The Cycle" (Cassidy, Alan)
I am myself moving to do all my new file stuff in SQL now, just
because IMO IBM is going to expand on SQL for database use, not on
DDS, they've said so, therefore it's the curve of time coming this
way. But even there, I find myself often "emulating" the cycle when
it's a report with totals and all that...
Yeah, "emulating" a native facility of a different language...
I regularly see questions posted in database/SQL forums of the form "How
do I <do x> in SQL?" The _real_ answer should usually be "You don't. You
should write a program instead." But so often the eventual answer is
some abomination of an incomprehensible SQL statement that verges on
grounds for dismissal.
The time and effort taken by multiple people to work through the problem
and post suggestions would be far better spent by simply writing a
30-line Cycle program (or whatever form of whatever language).
Ah, well. Even so, I do in SQL most such things as James did in RPG.
Tom Liotta
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