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  3. February 2010

Re: lazy, /dumb or inept programmer

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
You think OPNQRYF is easy?! Shudder! I got tired of counting apostrophes and whatnot long ago. Never used OPNQRYF again after using embedded sql.
No /WAY/ is OPNQRYF more integrated into RPG than SQL. IBM basically abandoned OPNQRYF back when it was still called the AS/400, and with good reason. If you think in database terms, SQL is it. Database functionality evolves almost in lockstep with SQL.

I first learned SQL through the clunky Query Manager interface. The shop where I worked in 1992 didn't have the SQL utilities (including STRSQL), so it wasn't easy having to enter SQL statements into source members and compiling them, with no debug capability at all. But it got me started, and I never looked back. When I did finally get to a forward-looking shop that had the SQL utilities installed, supporting both STRSQL and embedded SQL (in COBOL, not RPG, but that was fine, too), I never looked back.
But, yes, it's time to broaden your horizons.


Rob Berendt


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